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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Levy, Andrew, 1962-     Subjects     Carter, Robert, 1728-1804.     Plantation owners -- Virginia -- Biography.     Slaveholders -- Virginia -- Biography.     Gentry -- Virginia -- Biography.     Revolutionaries -- United States -- Biography     Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Virginia.     Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.     Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- Case studies.     Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.     Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Levy, Andrew, 1962-       by title:      The first emancipato...         MARC Display

The first emancipator : the forgotten story of Robert Carter, the founding father who freed his slaves / Andrew Levy. by Levy, Andrew, 1962- New York : Random House, c2005. Subjects Carter, Robert, 1728-1804.   Plantation owners -- Virginia -- Biography.   Slaveholders -- Virginia -- Biography.   Gentry -- Virginia -- Biography.   Revolutionaries -- United States -- Biography   Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Virginia.   Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.   Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- Case studies.   Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.   Virginia -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. ISBN:  0375508651 (acid-free paper) : Description:  xviii, 310 p. ; 24 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Requests:  0 Summary:  Robert 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hana P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3092 Carter Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Biography B Carter Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3092 Le missing from shelf Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3092 Carter Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mountain View P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3092 Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 973.3092 Carter Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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