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 . . .
Davis, Edwin Adams and William Ransom Hogan, 1908-1971. [William T. Johnson, 1809-1851.]
Language: English
Published by Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press [LSU Press], [2000]., 1973
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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
- Seller catalogs
- Americana-Mississippi
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About the Author
Edwin Adams Davis was the head of the Louisiana State University Department of Archives. He graduated from Kansas State Teachers College and received his advanced degrees at the State University of Iowa and LSU.
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.
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