No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War by Johnson, Michael P.

No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807849439)

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No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War by Johnson, Michael P.

No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War

$50.00
No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War by Johnson, Michael P.

No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War

$50.00
Format: Paperback
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These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three slaves and was the wealthiest free black in South Carolina. Although the early letters are indistinguishable from those of white contemporaries, the later correspondence is preoccupied with proof of their free status.



Author: Michael P. Johnson, James L. Roark
ISBN-10: 080784943X
ISBN-13: 9780807849439
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2001
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

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