We Were Always Free: The Maddens of Culpepper County, Virginia, a 200-Year Family History

T. O. Madden. Vintage Books USA, $12 (218pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74581-5

Madden, a self-described wealthy Virginia octogenarian, has painstakingly pieced together a moving account of his family's experiences as free Negroes in Virginia since the time of James Madison. Illustrations. (May)

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