Free Men in an Age of Servitude: Three Generations of a Black Family

Freedom did not solve the problems of the Proctor family. Nor did money, recognition, or powerful supporters. As free blacks in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, three generations of Proctor men were permanently handicapped by the social structures of their time and their place. They subscribed to the Western, middle-class value system that taught that hard work, personal rectitude, and maintenance of family life would lead to happiness and prosperity. But for them it did not-no matter

Author: Lee H. Warner
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780813155241

About the Author

Lee H. Warner is executive director of the Asolo Center for the Performing Arts in Sarasota, Florida.

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