Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping stra

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Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate th

In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first an

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.