[PDF.31ig] Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.)

Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.)

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 | #1515505 in Books |  2012-06-01 |  2012-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.60 x5.50l,.57 | File type: PDF | 192 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Almost Free|By B Mayers|Almost Free is of special interest to me because I grew up in Fauquier County and attended segregated schools there, including high school in Warrenton, Virginia. I've seen some familiar family names in the book and wonder if I might know descendants of some of those mentioned. I am so glad that Ms Eva Sheppard Wolf had the patience to see this work thr| ||Once again, Wolf crafts an elegant and illuminating study that reminds us just how complicated race was in the early national South. Thanks to the author’s fascinating topic and lively prose, this is a book that should be read by multiple audiences, fro

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 ten years of elaborate dealings and negotiations, Johnson earned manumission in August 1812. An illiterate “mulatto” who had worked at the tavern in War...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.)   |  Eva Wolf. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.

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