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Location Call # Volume Status
 Sherman Library  F232.P83 E49 2004    AVAILABLE  
 LAW Johnny C. Burris Collection - 3rd Floor  F232.P83 E49 2004    AVAILABLE  
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Author Ely, Melvin Patrick.
Title Israel on the Appomattox : a southern experiment in Black freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War / Melvin Patrick Ely.
Edition First edition.
OCLC 53483636
ISBN 0679447385
Publisher New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
Description x, 640 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
LC Subject heading/s White family.
Randolph, Richard, 1770-1796.
Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- 19th century.
Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Land grants -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History.
Free African Americans -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- Biography.
Prince Edward County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.
Prince Edward County (Va.) -- Race relations.
Prince Edward County (Va.) -- Biography.
Burris Collection.
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.
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