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William Johnson's Diary: The Text and the Man Behind It
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Southern Quarterly
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January 1, 2006
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William Johnson, businessman, slaveholder, and free man of color in antebellum Natchez, kept an intensely private diary for almost sixteen years, from 1835 until his death in 1851. Today we recognize this massive record as the longest and most detailed personal narrative by an African American during the antebellum era in the United States. Yet for almost a century no one knew William Johnson wrote anything at all.
Out of ordinary account books in which he tallied the daily expenditures and income of his early business ventures, Johnson's diary evolved into an extraordinary record of social, economic, and political life in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi. Largely self-educated, Johnson ...
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