Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900)

by EvaSheppardWolf (Author), EvaWolfSheppard (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $140.11

  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. Wolf argues that despite the many obstacles Johnson and others faced, race relations were more flexible during the early American republic than is commonly believed.