From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia by Robert Heinrich, Deborah Harding

From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia

Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World

Robert Heinrich, Deborah Harding

184 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter's handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of a midwestern antiques dealer. Its twenty-two pages told a fascinating story of a man born into slavery in Virginia who, at the onset of freedom, gain...

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