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From slave to landowner : how black farmers used tenant farming as a stepping stone Nelson County, Virginia 1865-19101520 views
Author
Harris, Martha Terrell, Department of History, University of Virginia
Advisors
Ayers, Edward, History, University of Virginia
Abstract
Pleasant Wood worked as a slave on a farm in Nelson County, Virginia until he was twenty-eight years old. The end of the Civil War and the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments abruptly altered his life. Formerly a person with no legal identity, trapped in a system of enforced economic dependence, Wood legally became a full citizen.
Harris, Martha Terrell. From slave to landowner : how black farmers used tenant farming as a stepping stone Nelson County, Virginia 1865-1910. University of Virginia, Department of History, MA (Master of Arts), 1993-08-01, https://doi.org/10.18130/V30671.
