{"id":12065,"date":"2011-02-13T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12065"},"modified":"2013-02-09T17:38:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T17:38:03","slug":"free-women-of-color-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12065","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/catalog\/53xqr3be9780252029394.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Illinois Press<\/a><br \/>\n2004<br \/>\n344 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9.25 in.\u00a0<br \/>\nIllustrations: 25 tables<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02939-4<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-252-07194-2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited by<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.duke.edu\/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2Fhistory&amp;Uil=dgaspar&amp;subpage=profile\" target=\"_blank\">David Barry Gaspar<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Duke University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msu.edu\/~hined\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darlene Clark Hine<\/a><\/strong>, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History<br \/>\n<em>Northwestern University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/catalog\/53xqr3be9780252029394.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/images\/9780252071942_lg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Black women who were not slaves during the era of slavery<\/em><\/p>\n<p>David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine&#8217;s <em>Beyond Bondage<\/em> outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, were forced to carve out their existences. Although their freedom, represented by the acquisition of property, respectability, and opportunity, always remained precarious, the collection supports the surprising conclusion that women of color often sought and obtained these advantages more successfully than their male counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas University of Illinois Press 2004 344 pages 6 x 9.25 in.\u00a0 Illustrations: 25 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-02939-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07194-2 Edited by David Barry Gaspar, Professor of History Duke University Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History Northwestern University Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,33,459,8,6940,20,25],"tags":[5441,1093,5442,5439,5438,5440,1111],"class_list":["post-12065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-census","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-darlene-c-hine","tag-darlene-clark-hine","tag-darlene-hine","tag-david-b-gaspar","tag-david-barry-gaspar","tag-david-gaspar","tag-university-of-illinois-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}