Africans in the Old South
Subtitle: Mapping Exceptional Lives Across the Atlantic World
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780674495166
Subjects: African americans, southern states; African americans, biography; Blacks; Slaves, united states; Slave trade; Southern states, history
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.