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Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile

By Sydney Nathans
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By Sydney Nathans
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Freedom’s Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South’s largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Black and white people alike. Emancipated in 1848 but required to leave the state to be free, he was sent to Liberia. Though richly endowed and royally welcomed, he found himself subject to new rulers and mired in the worst medical catastrophe in Liberian history...

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Social SciencesHistoryAfrican AmericansAfrican American HistoryUnited States HistoryAfrican American HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous African American History