{"id":47583,"date":"2016-06-12T01:25:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T01:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47583"},"modified":"2016-07-08T03:38:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T03:38:36","slug":"texas-slave-passes-as-mexican-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47583","title":{"rendered":"Texas slave passes as Mexican millionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas slave passes as Mexican millionaire<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

San Antonio Express-News<\/a>
\nSan Antonio, Texas
\n2016-06-11<\/p>\n

Joe O\u2019Connell<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Former slave passes as Mexican millionaire<\/em><\/p>\n

Historian Karl Jacoby<\/a> was driving near the Texas-Mexico border<\/a> when he was stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol<\/a>, the agency charged with keeping Mexicans out of the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He explained, to their dismay, that he was writing a book about a Texan who had tried desperately to cross into Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the completed book, \u201cThe Strange Career of William Ellis<\/a>,\u201d Jacoby has pieced together of the life a former slave who transformed himself into a wealthy Mexican.<\/p>\n

Ellis was born to a mixed-race mother on a cotton plantation in Victoria<\/a> one year before slavery ended, but found transformation in San Antonio<\/a>, then the hub of commerce between the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was born \u2018in between\u2019 in multiple ways,\u201d Jacoby said. \u201cThere was this fault line between slavery and freedom and what that might mean. There was also a fault line between the United States and Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both nations were courting immigrants as business boomed in the Gilded Age<\/a> at the end of the 19th century…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas slave passes as Mexican millionaire San Antonio Express-News San Antonio, Texas 2016-06-11 Joe O\u2019Connell Former slave passes as Mexican millionaire Historian Karl Jacoby was driving near the Texas-Mexico border when he was stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol, the agency charged with keeping Mexicans out of the United States. He explained, to their dismay, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,21,459,8,103,6462,1249,20],"tags":[22157,24067,19293,6690,24066,19295,19294,22156],"class_list":["post-47583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-mexico","category-passing-2","category-texas","category-usa","tag-guillermo-enrique-eliseo","tag-joe-oconnell","tag-karl-jacoby","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-express-news","tag-w-h-ellis","tag-william-ellis","tag-william-henry-ellis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47583","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=47583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47584,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47583\/revisions\/47584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}