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Between Slavery and Freedom explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the ldquoborderlandsrdquo between slavery and freedom in the years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil War. However they had navigated their way out of bondage ndash through flight, through military service, through self-purchase, through the working of the law in different times and in different places, or because they were the offspring of parents who were themselves free ndash they were determined to enjoy the same rights and liberties that white people enjoyed. In a concise narrative and selected primary documents, noted historian Julie Winch shows the struggle of black people to gain and maintain their liberty and lay claim to freedom in its fullest sense.