Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Slavery
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Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 Oxford University Press 2002-12-12 248 pages 9.04 x 6.84 x 0.9 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0195157178 DOI: 10.1093/0195157176.001.0001 John Saillant, Professor of English and History Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan In the second half of the eighteenth century, British and American men and women…
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Rediscovered Ancestry: a Family Learns the Story of Their Remarkable Ancestor, Senator Lawrence Cain
In his book, “The Virtue of Cain: From Slave to Senator” (2021, Rocky Pond Press), Kevin Cherry focuses on the short but extraordinary life of Reconstruction era Senator Lawrence Cain of Edgefield, South Carolina. Cherry, Cain’s great great-grandson, also tells the contemporaty story of a family with Southern roots, long identified as having some American…
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Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions.
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He was buried in the erased College Hill Cemetery believed to be located in what is now the Italian Club Cemetery’s parking lot.
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On Friday, a Georgia historical marker was unveiled in downtown Augusta to mark the home at 448 Telfair St. where Amanda America Dickson Toomer – perhaps the richest Black woman of the 19th century – spent the last seven years of her life.
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Based on events portrayed in Parker’s autobiography, “An Upstream Battle” illustrates the real danger that Parker and other members of the Underground Railroad were exposed to, and their commitment to helping runaway slaves, despite that danger.
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Patrick Healy never directly addressed questions of what his racial identity might have been in the written record he left behind. However, he wrote on a few occasions about “blacks” or “negroes” in a tone that seems to indicate that he saw them as a group he did not belong to.
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Cherokee Nation Strikes Down Language That Limits Citizenship Rights ‘By Blood’ National Public Radio 2021-02-25 Mary Louise Kelly, Host All Things Considered Rena Logan, a member of a Cherokee Freedmen family, shows her identification card as a member of the Cherokee tribe at her home in Muskogee, Okla., in this photo from October 2011. She…