Almost free : a story about family and race in antebellum Virginia Eva Sheppard Wolf

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolf, Eva Sheppard, 1969-

Series:

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Samuel, 1775?-1842.

Johnson, Samuel.

Freed persons--Virginia--Fauquier County--Biography.

Freed persons.

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--Virginia--History--19th century.

African Americans.

African American families--Virginia--Fauquier County--Social conditions--19th century.

African American families.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Virginia--Fauquier County--History--19th century.

Enslaved persons.

Fauquier County (Va.)--Race relations--History--19th century.

Fauquier County (Va.).

Fauquier County (Va.)--Social conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

xi, 174 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

A new birth of freedom

Among an anomalous population

Petitioning for freedom in an era of slavery

Visions of rebellion

Race, identity, and community

Legacies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820332307 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0820332305 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

759491821