Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis (Book Review) Journal of Southern History Vol. 67 2001 Lloyd A. Hunter Franklin College of Indiana The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. By Cyprian Clamorgan. Edited and with an introduction by Julie Winch. (Columbia, Mo., and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 1999. Pp. xiv, 122. $27.50, ISBN 0-8262-1236-0.)…
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In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled “The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis.” The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the “colored aristocracy.” In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves, and where those who were free…