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Israel on the Appomattox : a southern experiment in Black freedom from 1790s through the Civil War /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ely, Melvin Patrick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
White family.
Randolph, Richard, > 1770-1796.
Free African Americans > Virginia > Prince Edward County > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Virginia > Prince Edward County > Social conditions > 19th century.
Land grants > Virginia > Prince Edward County > History.
Free African Americans > Virginia > Prince Edward County > Biography.
Prince Edward County (Va.) > History > 19th century.
Prince Edward County (Va.) > Race relations.
Prince Edward County (Va.) > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The view from Israel Hill, 1863
  • Liberty and happiness
  • The promised land
  • Work
  • Challenges
  • Law and order
  • Worldviews
  • Progress and struggle
  • Appomattox and the new birth of freedom
  • The search for meaning in the southern free black experience.