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In search of the promised land : a slave family in the Old South /

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Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. This book offers a portrait of her extended family and of the life of slaves before the Civil War. Based on family letters as wel...

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Main Author: Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Schweninger, Loren
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:New narratives in American history.
Subjects:
Thomas, Sally, > 1787-1850.
Thomas, Sally, > 1787-1850 > Family.
Slaves > Tennessee > Nashville > Biography.
African Americans > Tennessee > Nashville > Biography.
Nashville (Tenn.) > Biography.
Nashville (Tenn.) > Race relations.
Thomas family.
Rapier family.
African American families > Southern States > Case studies.
Slavery > Southern States > Case studies.
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