{"id":11697,"date":"2011-01-24T22:17:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11697"},"modified":"2014-09-08T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:02:12","slug":"a-sea-captains-wife-a-true-story-of-love-race-and-war-in-the-nineteenth-century-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11697","title":{"rendered":"A Sea Captain&#8217;s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_american_folklore\/summary\/v124\/124.491.varner.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Sea Captain&#8217;s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (review)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_american_folklore\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of American Folklore<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_american_folklore\/toc\/jaf.124.491.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 124, Number 491<\/a> (Winter 2011)<br \/>\npages 120-121<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1535-1882 Print ISSN: 0021-8715<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharon Downey Varner<\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of English<br \/>\n<em>University of South Alabama<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hodes, Martha. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3622\" target=\"_blank\">A Sea Captain&#8217;s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century<\/a><\/em>. New York: W. W. Norton &amp; Company. 2007.<\/p>\n<p>This meticulously researched historical narrative is reconstructed from letters written by the subject and her family members. In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3622\" target=\"_blank\">A Sea Captain&#8217;s Wife<\/a><\/em>, historian <a href=\"http:\/\/history.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/marthahodes\" target=\"_blank\">Martha Hodes<\/a> brings to life the story of an obscure <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_England\" target=\"_blank\">New England<\/a> woman who marries a black man after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a> and takes up residence in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cayman_Islands\" target=\"_blank\">Cayman Islands<\/a>. Hodes is a professor of history at New York University and the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3618\" target=\"_blank\">White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth Century South<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Eunice Richardson, the subject of this book, was born a white, working-class woman in New England in 1831. She was first married to William Stone, a fellow New Englander, with whom she moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mobile,_Alabama\" target=\"_blank\">Mobile, Alabama<\/a>, for a period of time. Hodes speculates that it was in Mobile that Eunice first became acquainted with Smiley Connolly, an African American who would become her second husband.<\/p>\n<p>Hodes leaves no stone unturned and no document undogged. Her storyteller&#8217;s bent, her understanding of the complex racial climate of the late 1800s, and her extensive historical knowledge combine to produce an engaging historical document that reads like a novel&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_american_folklore\/v124\/124.491.varner.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sea Captain&#8217;s Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, and War in the Nineteenth Century (review) Journal of American Folklore Volume 124, Number 491 (Winter 2011) pages 120-121 E-ISSN: 1535-1882 Print ISSN: 0021-8715 Sharon Downey Varner Department of English University of South Alabama Hodes, Martha. A Sea Captain&#8217;s Wife: A True Story of Love, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,21,459,8,20,25],"tags":[5283,1426,5286,5284,5285],"class_list":["post-11697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-journal-of-american-folklore","tag-martha-hodes","tag-sharon-d-varner","tag-sharon-downey-varner","tag-sharon-varner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}