Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South FAM057000 making Montauk a true military

making Montauk a true military town

Sir William

ISBN10: 1596292857

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She grew up in London and has worked in Istanbul

Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South FAM057000 making Montauk a true militaryIn 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter million others, including William Ellison, were free people of color. But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. In a day when most Americans, black and white, worked the soil, barely scraping together a living, Ellison was a cotton gin maker a master