Book Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South PDF Free

Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South PDF
By:Michael P. Johnson,James L. Roark
Published on 1986-04-17 by W. W. Norton & Company

|A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship.| —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books In 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 large plantation and more slaves than all but the richest white planters. While Ellison was exceptional in many respects, the story of his life sheds light on the collective experience of African Americans in the antebellum South to whom he remained bound by race. His family history emphasizes the fine line separating freedom from slavery.

This Book was ranked at 19 by Google Books for keyword Rork.

Book ID of Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South's Books is n_rkAgAAQBAJ, Book which was written byMichael P. Johnson,James L. Roarkhave ETAG "XIpg46g7vbQ"

Book which was published by W. W. Norton & Company since 1986-04-17 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780393245486 and ISBN 10 Code is 0393245489

Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is false

Book which have "440 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHistory

Book was written in en

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true

Book Preview

Download Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South PDF Free

Download Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South Books Free

Download Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South Free

Download Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South PDF

Download Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South Books