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134. The Permeable Boundaries of Race: Interactions between Free People of Color and Whites in the Antebellum South, 1780s–1860

Sunday, January 9, 8:30–10:30 a.m.

Convention Center, Room 603

  • Chair: Melvin P. Ely, College of William and Mary

  • Papers: One of the "White Negroes": The Complexities and Ambiguities of a Free Black Man's Life in Antebellum Virginia
    Eva Sheppard Wolf, San Francisco State University

    "The Privileges of Citizens": The Boundaries of Race in Early National Georgia
    Watson Jennison, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    The Loss of the "distinctive mark," or the Moving Boundaries of Race in Antebellum Charleston
    Lawrence Aje, UniversitE9 de Versailles Saint-Quentin

  • Comment: Joshua D. Rothman, University of Alabama
    Melvin P. Ely
   
     
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