A Way out of No Way - Changing Family and Freedom in the New South

Using the experiences of her own family of freed slaves, the author looks at relations between plantation owners and their slaves after emancipation, how African Americans made a new life as employees and landowners as Piedmont Virginia entered the twentieth century.

About the author

Dianne Swann-Wright is Director of African American and Special Programs and Project Historian for the Getting Word oral history program at Monticello. She has been an educator, historian, and museum consultant on issues of African American history and culture.

Summary

The author of this text set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors - African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War. Using plantation documents and oral histories in the form of stories, anecdotes and sayings, she has created a history of a slave community.

Product details

• Authors: Dianne Swann-Wright
• Publisher: University Press of Virginia
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2002
• EAN: 9780813921372
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-2137-2
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 306 g
• Series: American South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories