Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier a Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier - Paperback
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Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier a Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier
The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary.
We first learn details of Frank's life when...
Juliet E.K. Walker is a professor in the History Department and the founder and director of the Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of Texas at Austin. She has written numerous books in African American history, including The History of Black Business in America.
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