Publication

2016 - Harvard University Press

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780674495166
  • ISBN-100674495160
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015030866
  • OCLC Control Number918616398
  • Better World Books9780674495166
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCE185.615.S695 2016
  • LCCE185.615 .S695 2016

Description

"The subjects of [this book] include Elizabeth Cleveland Hardcastle, the mixed-race daughter of an African slave-trading family who invested in South Carolina rice plantations and slaves, passed as white, and integrated herself into the Lowcountry planter elite; Robert Johnson, kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery in Georgia, who later learned English, won his freedom, and joined the abolition movement in the North; Dimmock Charlton, who bought his freedom after being illegally enslaved in Savannah; and a group of unidentified Africans who were picked up by a British ship in the Caribbean, escaped in Mobile's port, and were recaptured and eventually returned to their homeland"--Dust jacket flap.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Africans in the Old SouthHarvard University Press2016

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