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Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War

By Melvin Patrick Ely
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By Melvin Patrick Ely
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Thomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong.

Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they formed, called Israel Hill, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. There, ex-slaves established farms, nav...

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