Download or read book Black Savannah, 1788–1864 written by Whittington Johnson and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Savannah focuses upon efforts of African Americans, free and slave, who worked together to establish and maintain a variety of religious, social, and cultural institutions, to carve out niches in the larger economy, and to form cohesive black families in a key city of the Old South.