Israel on the Appomattox A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War

Name: Israel on the Appomattox A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780679768722

ISBN-10: 0679768726

ISBN-13: 9780679768722

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Authors: Melvin Patrick Ely

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WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE A New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' Choice Thomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong. Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they formed, called Israel Hill, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. There, ex-slaves established farms, navigated the Appomattox River, and became entrepreneurs. Free blacks and whites did business with one another, sued each other, worked side by side for equal wages, joined forces to found a Baptist…

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List price: $28.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/16/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 5.16" wide x 8.03" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



An Opening Word: Black Slavery, Black Freedom



The View from Israel Hill, 1863



Liberty and Happiness


Citizen Richard Randolph and His Slaves


Subordination Was Entirely Out of the Question



The Promised Land


As Comfortable as the Best in Israel Hill


Neighbors


To Inclose His Little Plantation: The Free Black Drive for Independence



Work


Sweating Like a Harvest Field Hand


Craft, Mystery, and Occupation


To Run the Road with a Waggon or the River with a Boat



Challenges


Nat Turner


Edmund Young and Free Black Resistance


Idleness, Poverty, and Dissipation: The Birth of a Proslavery Myth



Law and Order


Boisterous Passions and Paneless Windows


To Maim, Disfigure, Disable, and Kill



Worldviews


Kindred Cultures


Callousness and Closeness


Clashing Values


The Wisdom of Solomon



Progress and Struggle


For Richer, for Poorer


Black Freedom and the Crisis of the Union



Appomattox and the New Birth of Freedom


Postscript: The Search for Meaning in the Southern Free Black Experience


Documents


Will of Richard Randolph


Will of Betty Dwin


Will of Thomas Ford


Colonel James Madison on Emancipated Slaves


Will of Philip Bowman


Will of Anthony (Tony) White


Sources and Interpretations


Abbreviations in Notes and Remarks on Primary Sources


Notes


Acknowledgments