@inbook{10.5149/9781469608761_bishir.4,
 ISBN = {9781469608754},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469608761_bishir.4},
 abstract = {As an artisan of color, New Bern tailor John Rice Green (1793–1850) lived a life of paradox. Born a slave and apprenticed to a white master tailor, he learned and practiced his trade in bondage as did most black artisans in the South. By working extra hours he saved the money to obtain his freedom in young adulthood while also teaching himself to read and write. After his emancipation in 1818, he became a prosperous master craftsman with his own apprentices and slaves. Green spent his life in a setting dominated by the institution of slavery where he developed},
 bookauthor = {CATHERINE W. BISHIR},
 booktitle = {Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900},
 pages = {5--18},
 publisher = {University of North Carolina Press},
 title = {Introduction},
 year = {2013}
}