No Chariot Let Down

Charleston's Free People on the Eve of the Civil War

James L. Roark (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2001 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-4943-9 (ISBN)

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These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three slaves and was the wealthiest free black in South Carolina. Although the early letters are indistinguishable from those of white contemporaries, the later correspondence is preoccupied with proof of their free status.

Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	333 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8078-4943-X / 080784943X
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-4943-9 / 9780807849439
Zustand	Neuware