Title: A way out of no way
Description: Publisher description -- Looking at relations between plantation owners and their slaves and the succeeding generations of both, A Way out of No Way explores what it meant for the master-slave relation to change to one of employer and employee and how patronage, work relationships, and land acquisition evolved as the people of Piedmont Virginia entered the twentieth century. Swann-Wright illustrates how two white landowners, one of whom had headed a plantation before the Civil War, learned to compensate freed persons for their labor. All the more fascinating is her study of how the emancipated learned to be free--of how they found their way out of no way.
Subjects: African Americans, Biography, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Race relations, Slaves, Social conditions, Whites, Newman family, African americans, virginia, White people
Places: Buckingham County, Buckingham County (Va.), Virginia
People: Carey family, Newman family, Page family, Trent family