Tag: Gary Mills

  • Miscegenation and the Free Negro in Antebellum “Anglo” Alabama: A Reexamination of Southern Race Relations The Journal of American History Volume 68, Number 1 (June 1981) pages 16-34 Gary B. Mills (1944-2002), Associate Professor of History University of Alabama, Gadsden More than a quarter-century ago, the southern historian Frank L. Owsley predicted: “If the history…

  • Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers National Genealogical Society Quarterly (current source: Historic Pathways) Volume 70, Number 3 (September 1982) pages 163-189 Elizabeth Shown Mills Gary B. Mills (1944-2002) The pursuit of genealogical research by Afro-Americans is a fairly-recent innovation in the American social experience. From an academic standpoint, today’s generation of black family historians…

  • The Louisiana Metoyers American Visions June, 2000 Elizabeth Shown Mills Gary B. Mills (1944-2002) The Metoyer family of Louisiana provides an intriguing ample of the degree to which class, race and economic lines were blurred in early America. The Metoyers were both slaves and masters; in that regard, they were not unique. They were singular…