Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas Studies *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary

*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

Kia Carson

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infusing business principles with his signature ruthless edge he developed in the streets

and knockout fashion sense

Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas Studies *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporaryThe 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