About this title: Princeton history professor Melvin Patrick Ely chronicles a moving story of hope and hardship, pride and achievement, among free blacks in antebellum Virginia. 43 illustrations in text. 3 maps.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2004-09-14
ISBN-13:9780679447382ISBN:0679447385
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2004-09-14
ISBN-13:9780679447382ISBN:0679447385
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780679447382ISBN:0679447385
Description: Very Good/Very Good. . Hardcover, very good condition, w. v. ltly slanted, ltly compressed sp, v. ltly bumped bottom corners. V. ltly tanned p. edges. Sm spot on p. fr edges, remainder dot on p. bottoms. Cln, tight, unmarked. Dj very good, ltly rubbed--a few lt marks. A few sm spots on r. V. ltly bumped sp top. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780679447382ISBN:0679447385
Description: Very Good/Very Good. . Hardcover, very good condition, w. v. ltly slanted, v. ltly compressed sp. 3 v. ltly bumped corners, fr bottom corner smwht bumped. V. ltly warped fr brd. V. ltly tanned p. edges, remainder dot on p. bottoms. Squeaky fr hinge. Cln, tight, unmarked. Dj very good, ltly rubbed--a few lt marks and spots. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780679447382ISBN:0679447385
Description: Very Good. First Edition as stated. Hardcover, in Very Good condition, w/DJ. DJ has slight edgewear. Pages clean/crisp, binding tight. read more
"Great book. Ely examines a community of freedmen living in 19th century Virginia. Rather than the strict observance of racial mores in a slavery society that one would expect, Ely finds instead an atmosphere of accomodation and co-existance. Rather than use this as an argument to minimize the brutality of slavery, Ely argues that this actually heightens the horror as it undermines the Southern protestation that they didn't regard African slaves as human."
"This is a really wonderful microhistory of a small county in central Virginia where, in the early nineteenth century, a small group of freed slaves set up a community for themselves in a place they called Israel Hill. Ely does a great job of examining constructions of race and race relations in the antebellum south, challenging both our assumptions about the period and our complacency about race relations in our own time. Ely doesn't argue that slavery was anything less than a barbaric, horrific, shaming institution, but demonstrates the agency which African-Americans could have within the small space allowed them by the white community, and how both communities could recognise the humanity of the other (though the fact that whites were well aware that the people they kept as slaves were as human as they were makes the history of slavery ever more horrific and shaming to think about). The book plods a little towards the middle, but I think only because of the sheer amount of detail which Ely has gathered together to assist in his recreation of this fascinating community and its wider context. There is a lot in this book, but it's well worth the read."
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