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1) Israel on the Appomattox: a southern experiment in Black freedom from 1790s through the Civil War
Author
Publisher
A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong. Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they formed, called Israel Hill, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. There, ex-slaves established farms, navigated the Appomattox River, and became entrepreneurs....
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