William Johnson's Natchez: The Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro

ISBN-13: 9780807118559 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 848 str.

William R. Hogan; Edwin Adams Davis; William Johnson

Opis

The discovery in 1938 of the diary and personal papers of William Johnson (ca. 1809-1851), a free Negro of Natchez, Mississippi, made possible the publication of this fascinating volume. Johnson's diary offers a firsthand account of a former slave who rose from harsh circumstances to become a successful businessman. It is also an intimate portrait of life and social relations in a southern town in the years leading up to the Civil War.