THE FIRST BLACK GOVERNOR: PINKNEY BENTON STEWART PINCHBACK

ISBN: 9780865433441
$12.95
Son of an aristocratic white plantation owner and a mulatto slave, P. B. S. Pinchback, the frist black governor of Louisiana, was a natural swashbuckler, whose free-wheeling gambling and love life entangled him in several gunfights, six formal duels, and torrid romances. Despite the unwritten social laws of the South, which prevented most blacks from rising above menial positions, Pinchback's accomplishments were wide ranging, long lasting and extraordinary.
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