Slaves Without Masters: the Free Negro in the Antebellum South by Berlin, Ira - 1974

Pantheon Books. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 039449041X . Hardcover with dustjacket, "tells the often incredible story of the thousands of blacks (over a quarter of a million in 1860) who enjoyed freedom in the South before the Civil War," and "the story of all the peoples of the South and of the interaction between white and black, free and slave," book has moderate tanning to the outer page-edge and the first and last blank end-papers, the binding is tight and square and the contents are fine, the jacket is clean and bright with no remarkable flaws, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included ; 423 pages .