TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warner,Lee H.
TI  - Free men in an age of servitude: three generations of a black family 
SN  - 9780813164861
AV  - E185 .F744 1992
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Proctor family.
KW  - African American families
KW  - Florida
KW  - History
KW  - African American men
KW  - Biography
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Antonio the Soldier; 2. George the Entrepreneur; 3. Work and Family; 4. Reversal; 5. George's Defeat; 6. California; 7. George's Family; 8. John the Politician; 9. The End of Reconstruction; 10. Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; 2; b
N2  - Freedom did not solve the problems of the Proctor family. Nor did money, recognition, or powerful supporters. As free blacks in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, three generations of Proctor men were permanently handicapped by the social structures of their time and their place. They subscribed to the Western, middle-class value system that taught that hard work, personal rectitude, and maintenance of family life would lead to happiness and prosperity. But for them it did not --
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