THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 248: Free People of Color in the Antebellum South w/Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr.

Often Black identity in America is flattened to create a unified notion of Black community. As a consequence, the various class divisions that exist in Black America are obscured to facilitate Black social and political activity being easily governed by the American political establishment. When slavery is discussed, the images of all Black folk toiling on plantations comes to mind. What that image belies is that there have been free Black people, known as free people of color, that have existed in America since the earliest periods in colonial history. Shockingly, it occurred at times that these free people of color even owned their own Black slaves. What was the nature of free people of color societies. How did free people of color function in the antebellum south. How extensive was slave ownership among free people of color?   Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014. His publications include two academic books, Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (UNC Press, 2021) and North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715-1885 (LSU Press, 2020), the independently published Hertford County, North Carolina’s Free People of Color and Their Descendants (2016), as well as articles in the Journal of Social History and the North Carolina Historical Review. Milteer was the recipient of the Historical Society of North Carolina’s R. D. W. Connor Award in 2014 and 2016 for the best journal article in the North Carolina Historical Review.   About TIR Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron-only programming, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now: https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, especially YouTube! THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast   Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast & www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/   Twitter: @TIRShowOakland   Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Pascal Robert in Newsweek here: https://www.newsweek.com/obsession-black-white-wealth-gap-protects-elites-opinion-1661910   Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com   Get the music featured on the show here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/   Follow Djene Bajalan @djenebajalan Follow Kuba Wrzesniewski @DrKuba2