Forgotten Time

Forgotten Time
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0813919711
ISBN-13 : 9780813919713
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Forgotten Time by : John C. Willis

Download or read book Forgotten Time written by John C. Willis and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the lives of individuals - freedmen, planters, and merchants - Willis explores the reciprocal interests of former slaves and former slaveholders. He shows how, in a cruel irony replicated in other areas of the South, the backbreaking work that African Americans did to clear, settle, and farm the land away from the river made the land ultimately too valuable for them to retain.


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