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- Title
William Johnson's Diary: The Text and the Man Behind It.
- Authors
Andrews, William L.
- Abstract
This article presents the private diary of William T. Johnson, slave holder and free African American man in antebellum Natchez, Mississippi. Depiction of the social, economic and political life in his hometown in his diary; Dependence of the kind of freedom that Johnson worked to achieve and maintain in the South on his relationship with the economic and political institutions of his region; Use of his diary as a place in which to confide his feelings.
- Subjects
JOHNSON, William, 1809-1851; DIARY (Literary form); JOURNAL writing; FREE African Americans; AFRICAN American history to 1863
- Publication
Southern Quarterly, 2006, Vol 43, Issue 2, p18
- ISSN
0038-4496
- Publication type
Article