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

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

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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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Main Author: Wolf, Eva Sheppard, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2012.
Series:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Subjects:
Johnson, Samuel, > 1775?-1842.
Johnson, Samuel, > 1775?-1842
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.
African American families > Social conditions
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Freedmen
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
Biographies.
History.

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