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CWS The Battle of Chancellorsville
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