"The Free Negro in North Carolina 1790-1860" John Hope Franklin (University of North Carolina, 1943)

The Free Negro in North Carolina 1790-1860
John Hope Franklin (1915–2009)
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina,
1943 (First Edition)
271pp

Franklin’s dispassionate examination of the “legal status of the free Negro, his place in the economic life of the state, his social and religious life.” UNC Press notes: “As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states, discriminatory laws became so harsh that many voluntarily returned to slavery.”

Contents 
 
Foreword 
Preface 
 
I. INTRODUCTION 

II. GROWTH OF THE FREE NEGRO POPULATION 
Numbers and Distribution 
Manumission 
Miscegenation 
Runaway Slaves and Immigrant Free Negroes 
Maintaining the Status of a Free Man 

III. LEGAL STATUS OF THE FREE NEGRO 
The Problem of Discipline 
The Free Negro in Court 
Citizenship in the Larger Sense 
 
IV. THE FREE NEGRO IN THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF NORTH CAROLINA 
The Free Negro Worker 
The Free Negro Property Owner 

V. SOCIAL LIFE OF THE FREE NEGRO 
Education 
Religion 
Social Relationships 
 
VI. AN UNWANTED PEOPLE 
North Carolina “Liberalism” 
The Colonization Movement 
The Growing Hostility to Free Negroes, 
 
VII. CONCLUSIONS 
Appendices 
Bibliography 
Bibliographic Afterword 
Index