Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920

ISBN-13: 9781558494176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str.

James M. O'Toole

Opis

The story of a mixed-race family in 19th century America, Michael Healy, a white Irish immigrant planter in Georgia; his African American slave and wife Eliza, and their nine children. Legally slaves these brothers and sisters were smuggled north prior to the Civil War to be educated.