Bücher von William Ransom Hogan

Tells the remarkable story of William Johnson, a slave who rose to freedom, business success, and high community standing in the heart of the South, all before 1850. Based on Johnson's diary, letters, and business records, this biography reveals the complicated life of a freedman in Mississippi and a new perspective on antebellum Natchez.

In an era when scholarly writing on Texas history gave disproportionate emphasis to military and political history and ""great men,"" this book emphasized the lives of ordinary people as well as of the legendary figures of the Republic period.