Between Two Worlds: The Life of Free Black Diarist William T Johnson

For more than 75 years, 14 journals, dating from 1835 to 1851, sat inside a trunk located within an attic of a Greek Revival town house at 210 State Street, Natchez, Mississippi. These personal documents were unknown to anyone, except the author’s descendants—notebooks and leather-bound volumes penned by a Natchez barbershop owner, farmer, and “free man of color” William Tiler Johnson.

The extraordinary set of documents sampled inside this publication is a milestone of African American studies. It is considered the best autobiographical account of a free Black man living in the Deep South prior to the Civil War.

Details:

• Historical nonfiction
• 20 pages, approx. 8.5” x 5.5”, soft cover booklet
• Written by the staff at Natchez National Historical Park
• Printed in USA, published by Eastern National