{"id":57565,"date":"2019-02-15T20:32:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57565"},"modified":"2019-02-15T20:32:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:32:33","slug":"the-interracial-love-story-that-stunned-washington-twice-in-1867","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57565","title":{"rendered":"The interracial love story that stunned Washington \u2014 twice! \u2014 in 1867"},"content":{"rendered":"

The interracial love story that stunned Washington \u2014 twice! \u2014 in 1867<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2019-02-13<\/p>\n

Jessica Contrera<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nEli S. Parker<\/a>, a Seneca Indian<\/a> who worked for Gen. Ulysses S. Grant<\/a>, was engaged to Minnie Sackett<\/a>, a young white woman, in 1867. (The History Collection\/Alamy) (The History Collection\/Alamy Stock Photo\/The History Collection\/Alamy Stock Photo)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When Ely Parker<\/a> married Minnie Sackett<\/a>, \u201cthe creme de la creme of Washington<\/a> society\u201d came to gawk<\/em><\/p>\n

The wedding was a shock before it even began. In 1867, the nation\u2019s capital learned that Minnie Sackett<\/a>, the daughter of a prominent Civil War<\/a> colonel, was engaged. Sackett was considered to be \u201cone of the most beautiful women in the District<\/a>,\u201d according to the New York Tribune<\/em>, with her high-neck lace collars and brunette ringlets piled atop her head.<\/p>\n

Her soon-to-be husband, 39-year-old Ely S. Parker<\/a>, had served in the Union Army<\/a> as the private secretary to then-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant<\/a>. It was Parker who drafted the terms of surrender that ended the war in 1865. So close was their friendship that Grant himself planned to escort the bride, whose father had died, down the aisle at Washington\u2019s Episcopal Church of the Epiphany<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why was their betrothal controversial? \u201cIt may not be generally known that Col. Parker is a full-blooded Indian,\u201d the Tribune reported. \u201cA near relative to the famous Red Jacket<\/a> and of the present Chief of the six nations Cherokees<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

One hundred years before the Supreme Court would make interracial marriage legal throughout the country<\/a>, a white woman was marrying an Indian man…<\/p>\n

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

When Ely Parker married Minnie Sackett, \u201cthe creme de la creme of Washington society\u201d came to gawk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,3015,20],"tags":[29459,29455,29461,29456,29457,29458,28639,29460,2875,25360,2581],"class_list":["post-57565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-donehogawa","tag-eli-s-parker","tag-ely-parker","tag-ely-s-parker","tag-ely-samuel-parker","tag-hasanoanda","tag-jessica-contrera","tag-minnie-sackett","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-d-c","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57565","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=57565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57566,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57565\/revisions\/57566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}