Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas: The African-American Heritage of Freedom (Facts on File Library of American History)

Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas: The African-American Heritage of Freedom (Facts on File Library of American History)When Columbus arrived in 1492, the first free black person a sailor set foot in the Americas. Over the next 400 years, as slavery spread and became entrenched in the Western Hemisphere, free blacks built communities throughout North and South America, playing a critical role in every region, colony, and country. From Canada to the Caribbean to Chile, they established vital economic and social institutions, championed the cause of abolition, and formed

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