The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty by J. William Harris

The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty

J. William Harris

240 pages first pub 2009 (view editions)

history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The tragic untold story of how a nation struggling for its freedom denied it to one of its own.In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than five hundred “Free Negros” in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of £1,000 (about $200,000 in to...

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