Wolf Eva Sheppard, Sheppard Eva Wolf Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia 9780820332307

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Автор: Wolf Eva Sheppard, Sheppard Eva Wolf
Название: Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
ISBN: 9780820332307
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Автобиографии: общее жизнеописание

Социальная история и история культуры

Рабство и отмена рабства

ISBN-10: 0820332305
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.20 кг.
Дата издания: 30.04.2012
Серия: History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 6 black & white photographs, 1 map
Размер: 213 x 137 x 15
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Social & cultural history
Подзаголовок: A story about family and race in antebellum virginia
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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. There were several paths to freedom for slaves, each of them difficult. After ten years of elaborate dealings and negotiations, Johnson earned manumission in August 1812. An illiterate “mulatto” who had worked at the tavern in Warrenton as a slave, Johnson as a freeman was an anomaly, since free blacks made up only 3 percent of Virginia’s population. Johnson stayed in Fauquier County and managed to buy his enslaved family, but the law of the time required that they leave Virginia if Johnson freed them. Johnson opted to stay. Because slaves’ marriages had no legal standing, Johnson was not legally married to his enslaved wife, and in the event of his death his family would be sold to new owners. Johnson’s story dramatically illustrates the many harsh realities and cruel ironies faced by blacks in a society hostile to their freedom. 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. It could actually be easier for a free black man to earn the favour of elite whites than it would be for blacks in general in the post-Reconstruction South. Wolf demonstrates the ways in which race was constructed by individuals in their day-to-day interactions, arguing that racial status was not simply a legal fact but a fluid and changeable condition. Almost Free looks beyond the majority experience, focusing on those at society’s edges to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of freedom in the slave holding South.

Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia, Wolf Eva Sheppard, Sheppard Eva Wolf