{"id":31790,"date":"2013-06-17T20:49:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31790"},"modified":"2013-06-18T17:01:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T17:01:54","slug":"the-law-could-make-you-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31790","title":{"rendered":"The Law Could Make You Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.common-place.org\/interim\/reviews\/hardesty.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">The Law Could Make You Rich<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.common-place.org\" target=\"_blank\">Common-Place<\/a><br \/>\nA Common Place, An Uncommon Voice<br \/>\nExtra Issue: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.common-place.org\/vol-13\/no-03\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 13, Number 3.5<\/a> (June 2013)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bc.edu\/schools\/cas\/history\/\/grad\/phd\/gradstudentlist\/hardesty_jared.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Hardesty<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDepartment of History<br \/>\n<em>Boston College<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jared Hardesty is a PhD candidate in history at Boston College and is currently writing a dissertation on slavery, freedom, and unfreedom in eighteenth-century Boston<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juliewinch.com\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Winch<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=15222\" target=\"_blank\">The Clamorgans: One Family&#8217;s History of Race in America<\/a><\/em>. New York: Hill &amp; Wang, 2011. 432 pp.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Riggins, a leader of Boston&#8217;s nineteenth-century black community, once publicly admonished a fellow person of color, William Patterson, and took the opportunity to offer a lesson to the community at large. Patterson had purchased unlicensed liquor for some fellow African Americans, and the authorities in Boston caught him red-handed. In the midst of dressing Patterson down, Riggins expressed the hope that the &#8220;law will make you smart.&#8221; His proclamation to his fellow Afro-Bostonians\u2014the law could be a source of empowerment for African Americans\u2014may have been lost on Patterson, but it was a message that blacks across the United States heard loud and clear. Half a continent away in St. Louis, Missouri, the mixed-race grandsons of Jacques Clamorgan geared up to file suit and lay claim to their grandfather&#8217;s extensive lands. For them, Riggins&#8217;s message carried special resonance and an additional caveat. For the Clamorgan men, the law not only made them smart, but could also make them rich&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.common-place.org\/interim\/reviews\/hardesty.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Law Could Make You Rich Common-Place A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice Extra Issue: Volume 13, Number 3.5 (June 2013) Jared Hardesty Department of History Boston College Jared Hardesty is a PhD candidate in history at Boston College and is currently writing a dissertation on slavery, freedom, and unfreedom in eighteenth-century Boston Julie Winch, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,459,8,20],"tags":[14947,14948,777,773],"class_list":["post-31790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-common-place","tag-jared-hardesty","tag-julie-winch","tag-missouri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31790","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=31790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}