Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile

by Sydney Nathans

Freedom's Mirage traces the exceptional life of Virgil Bennehan, born in bondage in 1808 in Piedmont North Carolina, who rose to become an enslaved doctor on one of the South's largest plantations and to view himself as a friend to Blacks and whites alike. Emancipated in 1848 but required to leave the state to be free, he was sent to Liberia. Though richly endowed and royally welcomed, he found himself subject to new rulers and mired in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469682648
• ISBN13: 9781469682648
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 200 Pages