{"id":55156,"date":"2017-11-15T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55156"},"modified":"2017-11-15T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:00:09","slug":"the-empire-comes-home-thomas-laws-mixed-race-family-in-the-early-american-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55156","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law\u2019s Mixed-Race Family in the Early American Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-319-62334-4_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law\u2019s Mixed-Race Family in the Early American Republic<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chapter in: <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-319-62334-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>India in the American Imaginary, 1780s\u20131880s<\/strong><\/em><\/a><br \/>\nPalgrave Macmillan<br \/>\npages 75-108<br \/>\nPublished online 2017-11-11<br \/>\nOnline ISBN: 978-3-319-62334-4<br \/>\nPrint ISBN: 978-3-319-62333-7<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-319-62334-4_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1007\/978-3-319-62334-4_3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historyarthistory.gmu.edu\/people\/rzagarri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rosemarie Zagarri<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Law was a high-ranking administrator with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_India_Company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British East India Company<\/a>. In 1791, he left <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India<\/a>, bringing with him his three illegitimate sons, born of his native <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Concubinage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concubine<\/a>, or bibi. After a brief stay in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a>, he sought a more congenial environment in which to raise his mixed-raise children, In 1794, he, along with his sons, moved to the young <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> where he became a key figure in early <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Washington,_D.C.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington, DC<\/a> society. This essay examines the fate of Law\u2019s mixed race sons. Although their high social class tended to mitigate racial prejudice, racial animosity surfaced at key moments in their lives. Like British India, the early American republic was experiencing a hardening of racial boundaries during the early decades of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-319-62334-4_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law\u2019s Mixed-Race Family in the Early American Republic Chapter in: India in the American Imaginary, 1780s\u20131880s Palgrave Macmillan pages 75-108 Published online 2017-11-11 Online ISBN: 978-3-319-62334-4 Print ISBN: 978-3-319-62333-7 DOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-62334-4_3 Rosemarie Zagarri, Professor of History George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Thomas Law was a high-ranking administrator with the British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,1933,459,8,20],"tags":[1197,12778,12781],"class_list":["post-55156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-bookchapter","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-palgrave-macmillan","tag-rosemarie-zagarri","tag-thomas-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55156","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=55156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55157,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55156\/revisions\/55157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}