Title: Almost free
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.
Subjects: Freedmen, African American families, Race relations, Social conditions, Legal status, laws, Slaves, Emancipation, African Americans, Biography, History, Freedmen, united states, Virginia, biography, African americans, legal status, laws, etc., Virginia, social conditions, Slaves, emancipation, United states, race relations, Johnson, samuel , 1775?-1842, Freedmen--virginia--fauquier county--biography, African americans--legal status, laws, etc--history, African americans--legal status, laws, etc--virginia--history--19th century, African american families--social conditions, African american families--virginia--fauquier county--social conditions--19th century, Slaves--emancipation--history, Slaves--emancipation--virginia--fauquier county--history--19th century, Race relations--history, F232.f3 w65 2012, 975.5/03092 b, Freed persons
Places: Fauquier County (Va.), Virginia, Fauquier County
People: Samuel Johnson (1775?-1842)
Time periods: 19th century