A way out of no way

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Publisher description -- Looking at relations between plantation owners and their slaves and the succeeding generations of both, A Way out of No Way explores what it meant for the master-slave relation to change to one of employer and employee and how patronage, work relationships, and land acquisition evolved as the people of Piedmont Virginia entered the twentieth century. Swann-Wright illustrates how two white landowners, one of whom had headed a plantation before the Civil War, learned to compensate freed persons for their labor. All the more fascinating is her study of how the emancipated learned to be free--of how they found their way out of no way.

subjects: African Americans,  Biography,  Plantation life,  Plantation owners,  Race relations,  Slaves,  Social conditions,  Whites,  Newman family,  African americans, virginia,  White people

People: Carey family,  Newman family,  Page family,  Trent family

Places: Buckingham County,  Buckingham County (Va.),  Virginia