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The First Emancipator: Slavery, Religion, and the Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter

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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew LevyPublish date:1/9/2007Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780375761041ISBN-10:375761047UPC:9780375761041Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, HistoricalBook Topic:Colonial Period (1600-1775), Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Size:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCTG7EV4NS

The First Emancipator: Slavery, Religion, and the Quiet Revolution of Robert Carter

"[Andrew Levy] brings a literary sensibility to the study of history, and has written a richly complex book, one that transcends Carter's story to consider larger questions of individual morality and national memory."
-The New York Times Book Review

In 1791, Robert Carter III, a pillar of Virginia's Colonial aristocracy, broke with his peers by arranging the freedom of his nearly five hundred...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780375761041ISBN-10:375761047UPC:9780375761041Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, HistoricalBook Topic:Colonial Period (1600-1775), Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Size:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCTG7EV4NS
ANDREW LEVY was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, in 1962. He received an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars in 1986 and a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. Levy has published essays in Harper's, Dissent, and The American Scholar, book reviews in the Chicago Tribune and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and has written or co-edited several books on American...
Publisher: Random House Trade

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