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Almost free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia

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Wolf, Eva Sheppard
Series:
Race in the Atlantic world 1700-1900
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date:
[2012]
Language:
English
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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 -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Social conditions -- 19th century
African Americans
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
Biographies
Electronic books
Emancipation
Fauquier County (Va.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Fauquier County (Va.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Freedmen
Freedmen -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Biography
Freed persons
Freed persons -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Biography
History
Johnson, Samuel
Johnson, Samuel, -- 1775?-1842
Legal status, laws, etc
Race relations
Slaves
Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- History -- 19th century
Social conditions
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Sinha, Manisha
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Biographies
Electronic books
Fauquier County (Va.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Fauquier County (Va.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Freed persons -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Biography
Freedmen -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Biography
Johnson, Samuel, -- 1775?-1842
Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- History -- 19th century
title_displayAlmost free : a story about family and race in antebellum Virginia
title_fullAlmost Free : A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia Wolf, Eva Sheppard.
Almost free : a story about family and race in antebellum Virginia / Eva Sheppard Wolf
Almost free [electronic resource] : a story about family and race in antebellum Virginia / Eva Sheppard Wolf
title_shortAlmost free
title_subA Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
topic_facetAfrican American families
African American families -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Social conditions -- 19th century
African Americans
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
Emancipation
Fauquier County (Va.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Fauquier County (Va.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Freed persons
Freedmen
Freedmen -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Biography
History
Johnson, Samuel
Johnson, Samuel, -- 1775?-1842
Legal status, laws, etc
Race relations
Slaves
Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- History -- 19th century
Social conditions