For the Black Dandy, Fine Clothes Asserted Dignity
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 10, 2025
Styled for Freedom
Free African Americans, while not in bondage, still struggled in the white-dominated society to gain respect. In colonial America, free Black tradesmen in the North held keen appreciation for the status and respectability that stylish attire gave them. In 1789, one of the first memoirs by a Black man was published, entitled: The Interesting Narrative of . . .
