Download or read book No Chariot Let Down written by Michael Johnson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and