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Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (84th Edition) by Michael P. Johnson, James L. Roark Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 1986 ISBN-10: 0-393-30314-4 / 0393303144 ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30314-8 / 9780393303148 "A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." âC. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience span |