Title Israel on the Appomattox : a southern experiment in Black freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War / Melvin Patrick Ely.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	F232.P83 E49 2005	Available	---

Edition	1st Vintage Books ed.
Description	x, 640 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-614) and index.
Contents	The view from Israel Hill, 1863 -- Liberty and happiness -- The promised land -- Work -- Challenges -- Law and order -- Worldviews -- Progress and struggle -- Appomattox and the new birth of freedom -- The search for meaning in the southern free black experience.
Subject	Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- 19th century.
	Free African Americans.
	Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Social conditions.
	Land grants -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History.
	Land grants.
	Prince Edward County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.
	Prince Edward County (Va.) -- Race relations.
	White family.
	White family.
	Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Prince Edward County (Va.) -- Biography.
	Randolph, Richard, 1770-1796.
	Randolph, Richard, 1770-1796.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
ISBN	0679768726 paperback $18.00