Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson's Virginia
(Part of the The Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World Series)
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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 Albemarle County that existed for more than two generations after the Revolution--stretching to the mid-nineteenth century and beyond--despite fears engendered...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813933099
ISBN13:9780813933092
Release Date:October 2012
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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