{"id":56953,"date":"2018-10-21T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56953"},"modified":"2018-10-21T14:47:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T14:47:57","slug":"was-interracial-love-possible-in-the-days-of-slavery-descendants-of-one-couple-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56953","title":{"rendered":"Was Interracial Love Possible in the Days of Slavery? Descendants of One Couple Think So"},"content":{"rendered":"

Was Interracial Love Possible in the Days of Slavery? Descendants of One Couple Think So<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2018-10-21<\/p>\n

Adeel Hassan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nPaula Wright, a seventh-generation descendant of an interracial couple, has documented over 500 images that chronicle her family\u2019s history.
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He was buried in a white cemetery. She was buried in a black cemetery. Their marriage was unheard-of at the time.<\/p>\n

Both William Ramey and his wife, Kittie Simkins, were born and raised in Edgefield, S.C.<\/a>, or \u201cBloody Edgefield<\/a>,\u201d a town known for its grisly murder rate in the antebellum South<\/a>. Their relationship defied convention, and yet it survived war and bitter family resentment.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ramey, born in 1840, came from a prominent white family. Ms. Simkins was born a slave in 1845, most likely on a property called Edgewood owned by Francis Pickens<\/a>, who would become a Confederate governor.<\/p>\n

The love affair could have been lost if not for Paula Wright, a seventh-generation descendant of the couple who inherited vintage photographs documenting eight generations of her family, dating to 1805. Ms. Wright, a New York Times<\/em> reader, shared her family\u2019s story with Race\/Related<\/a> earlier this year…<\/p>\n

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

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