Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas

Mrs. Juliann Jane Tillman, preacher of the A.M.E. Church(A. Hoffy ; printed by P.S. Duval, 1844 / Library of Congress)

Dr. Marks examines how these individuals built lives in freedom for themselves and their families in two of the Atlantic World's most important urban centers: Cartagena, along the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, and Charleston, in the Lowcountry of North America's Atlantic coast. His conversation on this edition of Walter Edgar’s Journal focuses on the world of free people of color in and around Charleston.