caa a22 4500 388068353 CHVBK 20180307125139.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700024104 doi S0022050700024104 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700024104 Bodenhorn Howard Howard Bodenhorn is Associate Professor of Economics and Business and John M. Olin Fellow, Department of Economics, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042-1776. Phone: (610)330-5308. E-mail: bodenhoh@lafayette.edu. A Troublesome Caste: Height and Nutrition of Antebellum Virginia's Rural Free Blacks [Elektronische Daten] [Howard Bodenhorn] Formal rules and informal customs created innumerable obstacles to the socioeconomic advance of Virginia's free black population. Laws prohibited free blacks from some activities and occupations and restricted their participation in others. Racism and Klan-like terrorism also made advancement difficult. Despite these disadvantages, Virginia's free black population fared rather well. They grew nearly as tall as white Americans and towered over contemporaiy Europeans. Primary sources and the secondary literature are consistent with the anthropometric evidence. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/4(1999-12), 972-996 0022-0507 59:4<972 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700024104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700024104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bodenhorn Howard Howard Bodenhorn is Associate Professor of Economics and Business and John M. Olin Fellow, Department of Economics, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042-1776. Phone: (610)330-5308. E-mail: bodenhoh@lafayette.edu NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/4(1999-12), 972-996 0022-0507 59:4<972 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge