Pub Date: March 1, 1999
Dewey: 976.243
LCCN: 98-41462
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.92" H x 8.21" L x 5.49" W ( 0.86 lbs) 312 pages
BISAC Categories:
History | United States | 19th Century | Social Science | Enslavement | State and Local South ALARFLGAKYLAMSNCSCTNVAWV | African American and Black | Cultural and Ethnic Studies | African American and Black Studies
Series: Banner Books
Description: The story of a utopia created by Mississippi freedmen on a white man's former plantation
Brief description: Janet Sharp Hermann, a freelance writer and historian, is author of The Pursuit of a Dream and Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer Patriarch, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: A marvelous story for all readers with a taste for the ironies, the ambiguities, and the surprises of history--C. Vann Woodward