Sweet Freedom's Plains, Chapter 1: Race, Slavery, and Freedom

Sweet Freedom's Plains

African Americans on the Overland Trails 1841-1869

By Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, PhD.
For the National Park Service
National Trails Regions 6, 7, & 8

Introduction/Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Sections

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  Section 1

  The Early Black Presence

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  Section 2

  The Question of Race

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  Section 3

  The Evolution of Their Status

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  Section 4

  The Contagion of Liberty

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  Section 5

  Permanent, Hereditary Chattel: A Snapshot of Antebellum Slavery in the South, Indian Territory, and Border States

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  Section 6

  Northern “Unfreedom”

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  Section 7

  The Nature of Freedom in the West

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  Section 8

  Utah: Slaves and Saints

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  Section 9

  No Rights to be Respected