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"Born a slave in 1809, William Tiler Johnson was
freed in 1820 by his owner (most likely his father)
who had earlier freed his mother and sister. He
became an apprentice barber in the Mississippi
River town of Natchez and in 1830 took over his
brother-in-law’s barbershop. In 1835 he married
Amy Battles, also a free person of color, with
whom he had eleven children.
In 1835 Johnson began a personal diary to record his daily activities and financial affairs. He operated several barber shops and
a bathhouse, owned land and buildings which he rented out, and regularly loaned money at interest to black and white men
alike. He was also a slaveowner, as were many other free blacks in the South. In 1851 Johnson was murdered in a land dispute.
These diary entries span six years from 1838 to 1844, when Johnson was in his late twenties and early thirties. "
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