Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson's Virginia
by
Kirt von von Daacke
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In his examination of a wide array of court papers from Albemarle County, a rural Virginia slaveholding community, Kirt von Daacke argues against the commonly held belief that southern whites saw free blacks only as a menace. Von Daacke reveals instead a more easygoing interracial social order in...