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000308148 1001_ $$aLevy, Andrew,$$d1962-
000308148 24514 $$aThe first emancipator :$$bthe forgotten story of Robert Carter, the founding father who freed his slaves /$$cAndrew Levy.
000308148 250__ $$a1st ed.
000308148 260__ $$aNew York :$$bRandom House,$$cc2005.
000308148 300__ $$axviii, 310 p. ;$$c24 cm.
000308148 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-214) and index.
000308148 5050_ $$aCelebrated -- I: Revelation -- King of America (1728-1768) -- Dance or die (1768-1774) -- Heavenly confusion (1774-1778) -- II: Revolution -- Inglorious connexions (1778-1789) -- Deed of gift (1789-1804) -- Plans and advice.
000308148 520__ $$aRobert Carter III was born into the highest circles of Virginia's Colonial aristocracy, neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But in 1791, Carter severed his ties with this elite at the stroke of a pen. Having gradually grown to feel that what he possessed was not truly his, clashing repeatedly with his neighbors, his friends, government officials, and, most poignantly, his own family, he set free nearly five hundred slaves in the largest single act of liberation in the history of American slavery before the Emancipation Proclamation. How did Carter succeed in what George Washington and Thomas Jefferson claimed they fervently desired but were powerless to effect? And why has his name all but vanished from the annals of American history? In this vivid book, Andrew Levy traces the confluence of circumstance, conviction, war, and passion that led to Carter's extraordinary act.
000308148 60010 $$aCarter, Robert,$$d1728-1804.
000308148 650_0 $$aPlantation owners$$zVirginia$$vBiography.
000308148 650_0 $$aSlaveholders$$zVirginia$$vBiography.
000308148 650_0 $$aGentry$$zVirginia$$vBiography.
000308148 650_0 $$aRevolutionaries$$zUnited States$$vBiography.
000308148 650_0 $$aSlaves$$xEmancipation$$zVirginia.
000308148 650_0 $$aSlavery$$zVirginia$$xHistory$$y18th century.
000308148 650_0 $$aSlaves$$xEmancipation$$zUnited States$$vCase studies.
000308148 651_0 $$aVirginia$$xHistory$$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
000308148 651_0 $$aVirginia$$xHistory$$yRevolution, 1775-1783.
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