No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War

ISBN: 9780393955248

定价: 30.00

内容简介

In the summer of i935??? three little girls were playing under their
house in Stateburg??? South Carolina??? escaping the hot sun and watch-
ing doodlebugs capture and eat ants. In the half-light Gery??? Mary???
and Francine Leffelman happened to notice a cardboard box toward
the front of the house. When they crawled forward to investigate???
they found that the box contained some letters underneath what the
girls father later identified as a saw from a cotton gin. The twins???
Gery and Mary??? had just learned to read and recognized that the let-
ters were old. They took them to their father??? Lewis John Leffelman???
a forester educated at the University of Minnesota and Yale who had
recently come to Stateburg to manage a large timber plantation.
John Leffelman had always been interested in history??? and he pre-
served the letters his daughters had discovered. More than forty
years later??? in the spring of 1979??? the South Caroliniana Library at
the University of South Carolina acquired the letters from Mrs. Gery
Leffelman Ballou. To bring those letters fully to light and to make
them available to any interested reader??? they are published here for
the first time.