Episdoe 144: Defining Charleston’s Free People of Color
Charleston Time Machine - En podcast af Nic Butler, Ph.D. - Fredage
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Freedom and slavery were the opposing states of being that defined the lives of most early Charlestonians, but our community also hosted a small population of people who lived between those legal poles. The city’s “free people of color” enjoyed a modicum of liberty, but the law viewed their skin color and ancestry as a bar from full civil rights.