Almost free : a story about family and race in antebellum Virginia /

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"In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South. There were several paths to freedom for slaves, each of them difficult. After...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wolf, Eva Sheppard, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2012.
Series:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Subjects:
Johnson, Samuel, > 1775?-1842.
Johnson, Samuel, > 1775?-1842
1800-1899
Freed persons > Virginia > Fauquier County > Biography.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Virginia > History > 19th century.
African American families > Virginia > Fauquier County > Social conditions > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Virginia > Fauquier County > History > 19th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
African American families > Social conditions
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Freed persons.
Race relations
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
Social conditions.
Fauquier County (Va.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Fauquier County (Va.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Virginia
Virginia > Fauquier County
Biography
Biographies.
History.
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