A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
by
Eva Sheppard Wolf, Manisha Sinha, Patrick Rael
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
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.
There were several paths to freedom for slaves, each of them difficult. After...