Happy dreams of liberty : an American family in slavery and freedom / R. Isabela Morales.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]Copyright date: Ã2022Description: 1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197531822 (ebook) :Subject(s): Townsend family | Racially mixed families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography | Freedmen -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography | Racially mixed people -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography | United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197531792DDC classification: 973.50922 LOC classification: E663Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the 52-year-old white planter left behind hundreds of slaves, thousands of acres of rich cotton land, and a net worth of approximately $200,000. In life, Samuel had done little to distinguish himself from other members of the South's elite slaveholding class. But he made a name for himself in death by leaving almost the entirety of his fortune to his five sons, four daughters, and two nieces: all of them his slaves. In this deeply researched, movingly narrated portrait of the extended Townsend family, R. Isabela Morales reconstructs the migration of this mixed-race family across the American West and South over the second half of the 19th century.
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Also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the 52-year-old white planter left behind hundreds of slaves, thousands of acres of rich cotton land, and a net worth of approximately $200,000. In life, Samuel had done little to distinguish himself from other members of the South's elite slaveholding class. But he made a name for himself in death by leaving almost the entirety of his fortune to his five sons, four daughters, and two nieces: all of them his slaves. In this deeply researched, movingly narrated portrait of the extended Townsend family, R. Isabela Morales reconstructs the migration of this mixed-race family across the American West and South over the second half of the 19th century.
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