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050 00 $aF234.N8$b.B64 1997
082 00 $a975.5/52100496/073$220
100 1 $aBogger, Tommy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82127389
245 10 $aFree blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860 :$bthe darker side of freedom /$cTommy L. Bogger.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity Press of Virginia,$c1997.
300 $axiii, 264 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aCarter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tOut from the Shadows --$g2.$tThis Is Our Home --$g3.$tDeclining Employment Opportunities --$g4.$tFree Black Plaintiffs --$g5.$tFree Black Family Structure --$g6.$tLife in the Shadows --$g7.$tDisillusionment and Reprisals.
520 $aVery few studies of free blacks have attempted to interpret the actions and events affecting them from their own perspectives. At the same time, the search for understanding the antebellum black experience in the South usually has centered on slaves. In Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860, Tommy L. Bogger portrays lives somewhere between slavery and freedom.
520 8 $aA free black community of skilled artisans and semiskilled laborers emerged in Norfolk around 1800. Some free blacks earned the respect of leading white businessmen, and many enjoyed easy access to credit and steady employment. They showed no hesitation in suing recalcitrant debtors - black or white - and until 1805 they could count on the cooperation of court officials in helping them to collect.
520 8 $aBut from then on, free blacks experienced a steady decline in status that continued throughout the antebellum period. Legal restraints were placed on them at the same time that Norfolk's economy stagnated, and white immigrants arriving in the 1830s entered fields once monopolized by blacks. By the 1850s the free black community was sunk in hopelessness and despair.
650 0 $aFree African Americans$zVirginia$zNorfolk$xHistory.
651 0 $aNorfolk (Va.)$xHistory.
651 0 $aNorfolk (Va.)$xRace relations.
830 0 $aCarter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86726744
852 00 $bglx$hF234.N8$iB64 1997