Almost Free - A Story About Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia

Informationen zum Autor EVA SHEPPARD WOLF is an associate professor of history at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Race and Liberty in the New Nation: Emancipation in Virginia from the Revolution to Nat Turner's Rebellion . Klappentext 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. Wolf argues that despite the many obstacles Johnson and others faced! race relations were more flexible during the early American republic than is commonly believed. Zusammenfassung Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks. Wolf looks beyond the majority experience, focusing on those at society's edges to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of freedom in the South.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Wolf Sheppard, Eva Wolf, Eva Sheppard Wolf, WOLF EVA SHEPPARD
• Assisted by: Patrick Rael (Editor), Manisha Sinha (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2012
• EAN: 9780820332307
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3230-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Race in the Atlantic World, 17; Race in the Atlantic World, 17
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biografien: allgemein, 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Biography / Autobiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century