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

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Author:
Wolf, Eva Sheppard, 1969-
Series:
Race in the Atlantic world 1700-1900
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
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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.

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African American families
African American families -- Social conditions
African American families -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Social conditions -- 19th century
African Americans
African Americans -- History
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
Biographies
Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
Electronic books
Emancipation
Enslaved persons
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- History -- 19th century
Enslaved persons -- History
Fauquier County (Va.) -- History
Fauquier County (Va.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Fauquier County (Va.) -- Social conditions
Fauquier County (Va.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Freedmen
Freedmen -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Biography
Freed persons
Freed persons -- Biography
Freed persons -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Biography
Historical
History
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Johnson, Samuel
Johnson, Samuel, -- 1775?-1842
Legal status
Legal status, laws, etc
Race relations
Slaves
Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- History -- 19th century
Social conditions
South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
State & Local
Virginia
Virginia -- Fauquier County

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
Biographies
Biography
Electronic books
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Slaves
Social conditions
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