{"id":5481,"date":"2010-02-25T15:36:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T15:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5481"},"modified":"2019-02-22T23:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T23:56:02","slug":"ambiguous-lives-free-women-of-color-in-rural-georgia-1789%e2%80%931879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5481","title":{"rendered":"Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Arkansas Press<\/a>
\n1992
\n304 pages
\nISBN Cloth: 1-55728-214-5
\nISBN Paper: 1-55728-215-3
\nOut of Print<\/p>\n

Adele Logan Alexander<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History
\nGeorge Washington University, Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

1992 Winner, Gustavus Myers award as one of the year’s outstanding books promoting racial understanding.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Historians have produced scores of studies on white men, extraordinary white women, and even the often anonymous mass of enslaved Black people in the United States<\/a>. But in this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore undocumented dilemmas of one of nineteenth-century America\u2019s most marginalized groups\u2014free women of color in the rural South<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ambiguous Lives<\/em> focuses on the women of Alexander\u2019s own family as representative of this subcaste of the African-American community. Their forbears, in fact, included Africans, Native Americans, and whites. Neither black nor white, affluent nor impoverished, enslaved nor truly free, these women of color lived and died in a shadowy realm situated somewhere between the legal, social, and economic extremes of empowered whites and subjugated blacks. Yet, as Alexander persuasively argues, these lives are worthy of attention precisely because of these ambiguities\u2014because the intricacies, gradations, and subtleties of their anomalous experience became part of the tangled skein of American history and exemplify our country\u2019s endless diversity, complexity, and self-contradictions.<\/p>\n

Written as a \u201creclamation\u201d of a long-ignored substratum of our society, Ambiguous Lives<\/em> is more than the story of one family\u2014it is a well-researched and fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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