Complicated Lives
Subtitle: Free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: Jul 25, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781531016173
Description: "This narrative nonfiction book contains stories of people of African origin who were never enslaved, born free, or who obtained liberty through court proceedings in the U.S. They lived in a society that sought to systematically deprive them of liberty and other human rights. This history of Free Blacks in Virginia reveals the human ability to persevere against adverse odds arising from the color of their skin, or their gender, or both. It interweaves legal history with stories of what happened to those African Americans who were free before the Civil War and lived their lives in the shadows of a complicated world"--
Notes: Source title: Complicated Lives: Free Blacks in Virginia, 1619-1865