Book
The first emancipator : the forgotten story of Robert Carter, the founding father who freed his slaves
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Random House, c2005.
Physical Description
xviii, 310 p. ; 24 cm.
Subjects
- Plantation owners > Virginia > Biography.
- Slaveholders > Virginia > Biography.
- Gentry > Virginia > Biography.
- Revolutionaries > United States > Biography
- Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Virginia
- Slavery > Virginia > History > 18th century.
- Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States
- Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Virginia > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
- Carter, Robert, 1728-1804.