Between Two Worlds: The Life of Free Black Diarist William T. Johnson

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National Park Service

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$8.99

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Official Store

For more than 75 years, 14 journals, dating from 1835 to 1851, sat inside a trunk located within an attic of a Greek Revival town house at 210 State Street, Natchez, Mississippi. These personal documents were unknown to anyone, except the author’s descendants—notebooks and leather-bound volumes penned by a Natchez barbershop owner, farmer, and “free man of color” William Tiler Johnson. The extraordinary set of documents sampled inside this publication is a milestone of African American studies. It is considered the best autobiographical account of a free Black man living in the Deep South…