Free men in an age of servitude : three generations of a Black family
by Lee H. Warner
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Freedom did not solve the problems of the Proctor family. Nor did money, recognition, or powerful supporters. As free blacks in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, three generations of Proctor men were permanently handicapped by the social structures of their time and their place. They subscribed to the Western, middle-class value system that taught that hard work, personal rectitude, and maintenance of family life would lead to happiness and prosperity. But for them it did not -- no show more matter how hard they worked, how clever their plans, or how powerful their white patrons. The eldest, An. show lessTags
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