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| An Opening Word: Black Slavery, Black Freedom | ix | |
| Chapter 1 | The View from Israel Hill, 1863 | 5 |
| Chapter 2 | Liberty and Happiness | 16 |
| Citizen Richard Randolph and His Slaves | 16 | |
| Subordination Was Entirely Out of the Question | 33 | |
| Chapter 3 | The Promised Land | 51 |
| As Comfortable as the Best in Israel Hill | 51 | |
| Neighbors | 70 | |
| To Inclose His Little Plantation: The Free Black Drive for Independence | 95 | |
| Chapter 4 | Work | 107 |
| Sweating Like a Harvest Field Hand | 107 | |
| Craft, Mystery, and Occupation | 117 | |
| To Run the Road with a Waggon or the River with a Boat | 144 | |
| Chapter 5 | Challenges | 175 |
| Nat Turner | 175 | |
| Edmund Young and Free Black Resistance | 186 | |
| Idleness, Poverty, and Dissipation: The Birth of a Proslavery Myth | 196 | |
| Chapter 6 | Law and Order | 225 |
| Boisterous Passions and Paneless Windows | 225 | |
| To Maim, Disfigure, Disable, and Kill | 261 | |
| Chapter 7 | Worldviews | 284 |
| Kindred Cultures | 284 | |
| Callousness and Closeness | 301 | |
| Clashing Values | 309 | |
| The Wisdom of Solomon | 336 | |
| Chapter 8 | Progress and Struggle | 345 |
| For Richer, for Poorer | 345 | |
| Black Freedom and the Crisis of the Union | 370 | |
| Chapter 9 | Appomattox and the New Birth of Freedom | 402 |
| Postscript: The Search for Meaning in the Southern Free Black Experience | 435 | |
| Documents | 447 | |
| Will of Richard Randolph | ||
| Will of Betty Dwin | ||
| Will of Thomas Ford | ||
| Colonel James Madison on Emancipated Slaves | ||
| Will of Philip Bowman | ||
| Will of Anthony (Tony) White | ||
| Sources and Interpretations | 455 | |
| Abbreviations in Notes and Remarks on Primary Sources | 469 | |
| Notes | 475 | |
| Acknowledgments | 615 | |
| Index | 621 |
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Linda Williams
reviewed Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War on November 11, 2008 Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
This is a really wonderful microhistory of a small county in central Virginia where, in the early nineteenth century, a small group of freed slaves set up a community for themselves in a place they called Israel Hill. Ely does a great job of examining constructions of race and race relations in the antebellum south, challenging both our assumptions about the period and our complacency about race relations in our own time. Ely doesn't argue that slavery was anything less than a barbaric, horrific, shaming institution, but demonstrates the agency which African-Americans could have within the small space allowed them by the white community, and how both communities could recognise the humanity of the other (though the fact that whites were well aware that the people they kept as slaves were as human as they were makes the history of slavery ever more horrific and shaming to think about). The book plods a little towards the middle, but I think only because of the sheer amount of detail which Ely has gathered together to assist in his recreation of this fascinating community and its wider context. There is a lot in this book, but it's well worth the read.
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