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Author Ely, Melvin Patrick.

Title Israel on the Appomattox : a southern experiment in Black freedom from 1790s through the Civil War / Melvin Patrick Ely.

Publication Info. New York : A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  975.5 ELY    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  975.5632 ELY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 640 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Note "This is a Borzoi book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [475]-614) and index.
Contents The view from Israel Hill, 1863 -- Liberty and happiness -- The promised land -- Work -- Challenges -- Law and order -- Worldviews -- Progress and struggle -- Appomattox and the new birth of freedom -- The search for meaning in the southern free black experience.
Subject White family.
Randolph, Richard, 1770-1796.
Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- 19th century.
Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Land grants -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History.
Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- Biography.
Prince Edward County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.
Prince Edward County (Va.) -- Race relations.
Prince Edward County (Va.) -- Biography.
ISBN 0679447385
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