{"product_id":"chained-to-the-rock-of-virginia-meacham-gould-9780820320830","title":"Chained to the Rock of Adversity: To Be Free, Black, and Female in the Old South","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChained to the Rock of Adversity\u003c\/i\u003e offers valuable insight into the lives of the Old South's free women of color, using personal letters and a diary to tell an extraordinary story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe letters, from family members and friends, were written between 1844 and 1899 to Ann Battles Johnson, wife of prominent Natchez businessman William T. Johnson, and her daughter Anna, while Ann's daughter Catharine wrote the diary. A freed slave herself, Ann Johnson became the head of her family and a slaveholder before the Civil War. Her days were filled with the often tedious and sometimes overwhelming duties assigned to slaveholding women, but her race separated her from most other women of this class. The writings depict a tight-knit network of family and friends and show a family well aware of its precarious position in society, feared by most whites and resented by other blacks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEditor Virginia Meacham Gould provides an extensive introduction, a cast of characters, identifying notes, and a brief afterword tracing the Johnson family to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Virginia Meacham Gould\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820320838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820320830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 5.99w x 0.42d","brand":"Virginia Meacham Gould","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45064511521023,"sku":"9780820320830","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4edf3025-e9db-498b-a4c4-662b8a7b66c2.jpg?v=1712124490","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chained-to-the-rock-of-virginia-meacham-gould-9780820320830","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}