{"id":29506,"date":"2013-03-13T04:23:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T04:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29506"},"modified":"2021-10-07T22:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T22:15:27","slug":"family-secrets-crossing-the-colour-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29506","title":{"rendered":"Family Secrets: Crossing the Colour Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family Secrets: Crossing the Colour Line<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dundurn Publishing<\/a>
\nFebruary 2003
\n264 pages
\n6 x 9 in
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-89621-982-0
\neBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-55488-161-1
\neBook (EPUB) ISBN: 978-1-45971-478-6<\/p>\n

Catherine Slaney<\/strong><\/p>\n

Foreword by:<\/p>\n

Daniel G. Hill, III<\/a> (1923-2003)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life. Her great-grandfather was Dr. Anderson Abbott<\/a>, the first Canadian-born Black to graduate from medical school in Toronto<\/a> in 1861. In Family Secrets<\/em> Catherine Slaney narrates her journey along the trail of her family tree, back through the era of slavery and the plight of fugitive slaves, the Civil War<\/a>, the Elgin settlement<\/a> near Chatham, Ontario<\/a>, and the Chicago years. Why did some of her family identify with the Black Community while others did not? What role did “passing<\/a>” play? Personal anecdotes and excerpts from archival Abbott family papers enliven the historical context of this compelling account of a family dealing with an unknown past. A welcome addition to African-Canadian history, this moving and uplifting story demonstrates that understanding one’s identity requires first the embracing of the past.<\/p>\n

Why did some of her family identify with the Black Community while others did not? What role did “passing” play? Personal anecdotes and excerpts from archival Abbott family papers enliven the historical context of this compelling account of a family dealing with an unknown past. A welcome addition to African-Canadian history, this moving and uplifting story demonstrates that understanding one\u2019s identity requires first the embracing of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family Secrets: Crossing the Colour Line Dundurn Publishing February 2003 264 pages 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 978-1-89621-982-0 eBook (PDF) ISBN: 978-1-55488-161-1 eBook (EPUB) ISBN: 978-1-45971-478-6 Catherine Slaney Foreword by: Daniel G. Hill, III (1923-2003) Catherine Slaney grew into womanhood unaware of her celebrated Black ancestors. An unanticipated meeting was to change her life. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,19,459,17,6462],"tags":[10442,10441,10439,13994,3132,13995,27992],"class_list":["post-29506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-canada","category-history","category-monographs","category-passing-2","tag-anderson-abbott","tag-anderson-r-abbott","tag-anderson-ruffin-abbott","tag-catherine-slaney","tag-daniel-g-hill","tag-daniel-g-hill-iii","tag-dundurn-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29506","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=29506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61746,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29506\/revisions\/61746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}