In old Virginia : slavery, farming, and society in the journal of John Walker /
"In 1824, John Walker purchased a 500-acre farm in King and Queen County, Virginia, and began working it with a dozen slaves. The son of a local politician and planter who grew tobacco, Walker lost status when he became a devout Methodist, raised wheat, and treated his slaves like brothers and...
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002.
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