Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson's Virginia by Kirt Von Daacke

Freedom Has a Face: Race, Identity, and Community in Jefferson's Virginia

Kirt Von Daacke

269 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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In his examination of a wide array of court papers from Albemarle County, a rural Virginia slaveholding community, Kirt von Daacke argues against the commonly held belief that southern whites saw free blacks only as a menace. Von Daacke reveals in...

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