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These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William
Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a
free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a
slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and
by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three slaves and was the
wealthiest free black in South Carolina. Although the early letters
are indistinguishable from those of white contemporaries, the later
correspondence is preoccupied with proof of their free status.
In 1865, the Confederacy passed into history, but its ideological
cornerstone survived. War had ended slavery, but war had not ended
Southern planters' attachment to it. This is a history of that
moment when planters became masters without slaves.
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