No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People on the Eve of the Civil War
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 slaves and was the wealthiest free black in South Carolina. Although the early letters are indistinguishable from those of white contemporaries, the later correspondence is preoccupied with proof of their free status.
AFRICAN AMERICANS_SOUTH CAROLINASOUTH CAROLINA_HISTORY
RELEASED1984
PUBLISHERThe University of North Carolina Press
LENGTH192
LANGUAGEEN
Michael Paul Johnson (born 20 December 1942) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and African and African American Studies at Penn State. He is an internationally recognized expert on domestic violence.
No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People on the Eve of the Civil War
by Michael P Johnson, James L. Roark
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 slaves and was the wealthiest free black in South Carolina. Although the early letters are indistinguishable from those of white contemporaries, the later correspondence is preoccupied with proof of their free status.
AFRICAN AMERICANS_SOUTH CAROLINASOUTH CAROLINA_HISTORY
RELEASED1984
PUBLISHERThe University of North Carolina Press
LENGTH192
LANGUAGEEN
Michael Paul Johnson (born 20 December 1942) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and African and African American Studies at Penn State. He is an internationally recognized expert on domestic violence.
