A new introduction by Ira Berlin explores the historical impact of The Barber of Natchez since its original publication in 1954 and analyzes its relevance today. Based on Johnson's two-thousand-page diary, letters, and business records, this extraordinary biography reveals the complicated life of a freedman in Mississippi and a new perspective on antebellum Natchez.
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William Ransom Hogan was head of the Department of Archives at LSU and also served as chairman of the history department at Tulane University. He is the author of The Texas Republic: A Social and Economic History.
Ira Berlin is the author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America and Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves, winner of the Albert Beveridge Prize, among other works. He is Distinguished University Professor in the department of history at the University of Maryland.
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