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In search of the promised land : a slave family in the Old South /
Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. This book offers a portrait of her extended family and of the life of slaves before the Civil War. Based on family letters as wel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | New narratives in American history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. This book offers a portrait of her extended family and of the life of slaves before the Civil War. Based on family letters as well as an autobiography by one of her sons, the detective work follows a singular group as they walk the boundary between slave and free, traveling across the country in search of a "promised land" where African Americans would be treated with respect. This small family experienced the full gamut of slavery, witnessing everything from the breakup of slave families, brutal punishment, and runaways, to miscegenation, insurrection panics, and slave patrols. They also illuminate the hidden lives of "virtually free" slaves, who maintained close relationships with whites, maneuvered within the system, and gained a large measure of autonomy.--From publisher description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 286 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423746627 9781423746621 1602567247 9781602567245 0195160878 9780195160871 0195160886 9780195160888 1280503238 9781280503238 |