Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas Studies the ways that their lives

the ways that their lives were regulated by the government and the Church

love is not all you need

*Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts and a bibliography for further readingPlague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning

and helps them avenge their deaths

journalism

Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas Studies the ways that their livesThe seven contributions contained in this collection address various forms of manumission throughout the American South as well as the Caribbean. Topics include color, class, and identity on the eve of the Haitian revolution; where free persons of color stood in the hierarchy of wealth in antebellum