THE BARBER OF NATCHEZ WHEREIN A SLAVE IS FREED AND RISES TO A VERY HIGH STANDING; WHEREIN THE FORMER SLAVE WRITES A TWO-THOUSAND-PAGE JOURNAL ABOUT HIS TOWN AND HIMSELF; WHEREIN THE FREE NEGRO DIARIST IS APPRAISED IN TERMS OF HIS FRIENDS, HIS CODE . . .

Language: English

Published by Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press [LSU Press], [2000]., 1973

0807102121 / 9780807102121

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Full title - THE BARBER OF NATCHEZ WHEREIN A SLAVE IS FREED AND RISES TO A VERY HIGH STANDING; WHEREIN THE FORMER SLAVE WRITES A TWO-THOUSAND-PAGE JOURNAL ABOUT HIS TOWN AND HIMSELF; WHEREIN THE FREE NEGRO DIARIST IS APPRAISED IN TERMS OF HIS FRIENDS, HIS CODE, AND HIS COMMUNITY'S REACTION TO HIS WANTON MURDER. Reprint of the 1973 edition. [10], 278 pages. Paperback: H 21.25cm x L 14cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed; slight curling towards front cover's fore-edge with light crease at lower corner; bookstore price sticker still affixed to rear cover. Light creasing/curling at top fore-edge corners of pages 117-124; interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy. With frontispiece portrait, Preface by Edwin Adams Davis, and Index. Biography of freed slave William T. Johnson (1809-1851) of Natchez, Mississippi who amassed a fair fortune during the early to mid 1800s acquired by entrepreneurial ownership of various businesses including a barber shop, a bath house, a book store, and various land holdings. {MS Shelf #4} ISBN 0807102121.…

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Title
THE BARBER OF NATCHEZ WHEREIN A SLAVE IS FREED AND RISES TO A VERY HIGH STANDING; WHEREIN THE FORMER SLAVE WRITES A TWO-THOUSAND-PAGE JOURNAL ABOUT HIS TOWN AND HIMSELF; WHEREIN THE FREE NEGRO DIARIST IS APPRAISED IN TERMS OF HIS FRIENDS, HIS CODE . . .
Author
Davis, Edwin Adams and William Ransom Hogan, 1908-1971. [William T. Johnson, 1809-1851.]
Publisher
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press [LSU Press], [2000].
Publication year
1973
Binding
Soft cover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0807102121
ISBN 13
9780807102121
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