{"id":20105,"date":"2012-01-24T20:58:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T20:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20105"},"modified":"2012-01-24T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T21:03:14","slug":"freedoms-child-the-life-of-a-confederate-generals-black-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20105","title":{"rendered":"Freedom’s Child: The Life of a Confederate General’s Black Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freedom’s Child: The Life of a Confederate General’s Black Daughter<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Algonquin Books<\/a>
\n1998
\n288 pages
\nISBN: 9781565121867<\/p>\n

Carrie Allen McCray<\/a> (1913-2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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When Carrie Allen McCray was a child, she was afraid to ask about the framed photograph of a white man on her mother’s dresser. Years later she learned that he was her grandfather, a Confederate<\/a> general, and that her grandmother was a former slave. In her late seventies, Carrie McCray went searching for her history and found the remarkable story of her mother, Mary [Rice Allen], the illegitimate daughter of General J. R. Jones, of Lynchburg, Virginia<\/a>. Jones would later be cast out of Lynchburg society for publicly recognizing his daughter. Freedom’s Child<\/em> is a loving remembrance of how Mary spent her life beating down the kind of thinking that ostracized her father. She was a leader in the founding of the NAACP<\/a> and hosted the likes of Langston Hughes<\/a> and W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a> as they plotted the war against discrimination at her kitchen table. Carrie McCray’s memories reward us with an extraordinarily vivid and intimate portrait of a remarkable woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freedom’s Child: The Life of a Confederate General’s Black Daughter Algonquin Books 1998 288 pages ISBN: 9781565121867 Carrie Allen McCray (1913-2008) When Carrie Allen McCray was a child, she was afraid to ask about the framed photograph of a white man on her mother’s dresser. Years later she learned that he was her grandfather, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,8,17,6940,20,25],"tags":[9347,9349,9348,9350,9351],"class_list":["post-20105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-algonquin-books","tag-carrie-a-mccray","tag-carrie-allen-mccray","tag-carrie-mccray","tag-mary-rice-allen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20105","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=20105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}