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Man in the Middle: Thomas Day and the Free Black Experience
Thomas Day (1801–ca. 1861) was a successful free black furniture maker and businessman who stood “in the middle” of competing forces in nineteenth-century America: between black and white, slave and free, North and South, and Africa and America.
Thomas day biography
A black man who owned slaves and who also had abolitionist ties in the North, Day embodied the contradictions and complexity of his era, yet he and many other free black men and women in the South as well as the North navigated the labyrinth of race, culture, and power in nineteenth-century America.
Not only did they survive, but they increased in number and many helped to “craft freedom” not only for themselves and family members but for other less fortunate members of their race.
Thomas Day remained in the South his entire life.
In 1857, a national financial crisis destroyed one in three businesses and Day's furniture shop—the largest in North Carolina—also went into ban