•Illustrated edition, with 10 sketch illustrations"Scholars like...Russell...believe that...free Blacks owning black slaves was so common as to pass unnoticed." - Black Yellow Dogs (2008)"Russell...marveled at the number of free blacks that were in Virginia before slavery's institutionalization." - Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States (2012)Was it commonplace for free Blacks to own slaves in Virginia, prior to 1865? Professor John Henderson Russell (born 1884) has surprising answers in his short 12-page book, published in 1916, titled "Colored Freemen as Slave Owners in Virginia."In introducing his book, Russell writes: "When the court records are opened and the strange story of the free Negro Anthony Johnson and his slave John Casor is read and understood we are forced to a realization of the impartial attitude of the law toward black masters not only in its outward expression but also in its actual application.About the author:Dr. Henderson received a Ph.D. in Political Science and was a professor of political science at Whitman College, in Walla Walla, Washington. Later he became the director of taxation for Virginia.
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