Pease & Pease, The Who Would Be Free - Blacks' Search For Freedom, 1830-1861

Abstract

First published in 1974, They Who Would Be Free remains a work of considerable insight and importance. Reprinted in 1990 by the University of Illinois Press as part of their fine series on Blacks in the New World, edited by August Meier, both the scope and the interpretive quality of the Peases' study stands up well in light of sixteen years of additional historical analysis. Indeed, the only change made to this new edition is a bibliographical essay that updates the scholarship since 1974.