Almost free
Subtitle: a story about family and race in antebellum Virginia
By: Eva Sheppard Wolf
Series: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780820332291; 9780820332307
Subjects: Freedmen; African American families; Race relations; Social conditions; Legal status, laws; Slaves; Emancipation; African Americans; Biography; History
Description: In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.