The story of William Ellison emphasizes the fine line separating freedom from slavery and sheds light on the collective experience of Blacks in the antebellum S

"A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a qu

The story of William Ellison emphasizes the fine line separating freedom from slavery and sheds light on the collective experience of Blacks in the antebellum S

Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper advertisements, this authoritative study describes the nature of Africa

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slave