Charleston's Free People on the Eve of the Civil War
by
Michael P Johnson, James L. Roark
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three...