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Robert Carter III, the

grandson of Tidewater legend Robert “King” Carter, was born into

the highest circles of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy. He was

neighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peer

to Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But on September 5, 1791,

Carter severed his ties with this glamorous elite at the stroke of

a pen. In a document he called his Deed of Gift, Carter declared

his intent to 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 the very action that 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 haunting, brilliantly original

work, Andrew Levy traces the confluence of circumstance,

conviction, war, and passion that led to Carter’s extraordinary

act.

At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, Carter was one of the

wealthiest men in America, the owner of tens of thousands of acres

of land, factories, ironworks–and hundreds of slaves. But

incrementally, almost unconsciously, Carter grew to feel that what

he possessed was not truly his. In an era of empty Anglican piety,

Carter experienced a feverish religious visionthat impelled him to

help build a church where blacks and whites were equals.

In an age of publicly sanctioned sadism against blacks, he defied

convention and extended new protections and privileges to his

slaves. As the war ended and his fortunes declined, Carter

dedicated himself even more fiercely to liberty, clashing

repeatedly with his neighbors, his friends, government officials,

and, most poignantly, his own family.

But Carter was not the only humane master, nor the sole partisan of

freedom, in that freedom-loving age. Why did this troubled,

spiritually torn man dare to do what far more visionary slave

owners only dreamed of? In answering this question, Andrew Levy

teases out the very texture of Carter’s life and soul–the unspoken

passions that divided him from others of his class, and the

religious conversion that enabled him to see his black slaves in a

new light.

Drawing on years of painstaking research, written with grace and

fire, The First Emancipator is a portrait of an unsung hero who has

finally won his place in American history. It is an astonishing,

challenging, and ultimately inspiring book.

From the Hardcover edition.

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