Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679768722ISBN-10:679768726UPC:9780679768722Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:American, State & Local, 19th CenturySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC72WQ4EWT
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong. Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679768722ISBN-10:679768726UPC:9780679768722Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:American, State & Local, 19th CenturySize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC72WQ4EWT
Melvin Patrick Ely, a native of Richmond, Virginia, took undergraduate and graduate degrees in history at Princeton University, studied linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia. He has taught in public high schools in Virginia and Massachusetts, at Yale...
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