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Africans in the old South : mapping exceptional lives across the Atlantic world

Sparks, Randy J., author

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\"The subjects of [this book] include Elizabeth Cleveland Hardcastle, the mixed-race daughter of an African slave-trading family who invested in South Carolina rice plantations and slaves, passed as white, and integrated herself into the Lowcountry planter elite; Robert Johnson, kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery in Georgia, who later learned English, won his freedom, and joined the abolition movement in the North; Dimmock Charlton, who bought his freedom after being illegally enslaved in Savannah; and a group of unidentified Africans who were picked up by a British ship in the Caribbean, escaped in Mobile's port, and were recaptured and eventually returned to their homeland\"--Dust jacket flap.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Subject: African Americans Southern States Biography. / Blacks Atlantic Ocean Region Biography. / Slaves Southern States Biography. / Slave trade History. / Southern States History 18th century. / Southern States History 19th century.
• ISBN: 9780674495166, 0674495160

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E185.615.S695 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE