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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
Pub. Date:
[2012]
Language:
English
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F232.F3 W65 2012
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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
Rael, Patrick
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9780820332307
9780820343648
9780820332291
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Last Grouping Update2022-09-28 02:28:13AM
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African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
Biographies
Electronic books
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Fauquier County (Va.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Freed persons -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Biography
Freedmen -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- Biography
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Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- History -- 19th century
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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
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
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Johnson, Samuel, -- 1775?-1842
Legal status, laws, etc
Race relations
Slaves
Slaves -- Emancipation -- Virginia -- Fauquier County -- History -- 19th century
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