Forgotten Time
Author: John C. Willis
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780813919713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining the lives of individuals - freedmen, planters, and merchants - Willis explores the reciprocal interests of former slaves and former slaveholders. He shows how, in a cruel irony replicated in other areas of the South, the backbreaking work that African Americans did to clear, settle, and farm the land away from the river made the land ultimately too valuable for them to retain.