Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship. —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of BooksIn 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were free people of color. But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. In a day when most Americans, black and white, worked the soil, barely scraping together a living, Ellison was a cotton-gin maker—a master craftsman. When nearly all free blacks were destitute, Ellison was wealthy and well-established. He owned a la…
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Weitere Autoren: Roark, James L.
- ISBN: 978-0-393-24548-6
- EAN: 9780393245486
- Produktnummer: 34247575
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
- Seitenangabe: 440 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Michael P. Johnson is professor of history at the University of California in Irvine.
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