No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War by James L. Roark, Michael P. Johnson

No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War

James L. Roark, Michael P. Johnson

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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 busin...

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