Freedom's Mirage: Virgil Bennehan's Odyssey from Emancipation to Exile
Sydney Nathans
University of North Carolina Press
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 Black and white people alike.