Miss Mary's Money
Fortune and Misfortune in a North Carolina Plantation Family, 1760-1924
Every legitimate” member of Revolutionary War soldier Francis Jones's family lies in a small cemetery near where the Smiths' enslaved maid Harriet gave birth to four daughters, one fathered by Jones's white lawyer grandson, three by the white physician grandson. The four girls grew up with two mothers”, for Miss Mary Ruffin Smith, spinster sister of the licentious boys, took them into the big house, baptized them, and then guided them to marriage to respectable biracial men.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7864-9662-4
- EAN: 9780786496624
- Produktnummer: 16547007
- Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H25.4 cm x B17.8 cm x D0.0 cm 408 g
- Abbildungen: 60 photographs
- Gewicht: 408
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
H. G. Jones (Ph.D. Duke) has served as a history professor in several universities; state archivist and director of the North Carolina Department of Archives and History; and curator of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His career was capped in 2002 with the North Carolina Award for Public Service, the state's highest civilian recognition. He lives in Pittsboro.
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