{"id":58939,"date":"2019-09-23T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58939"},"modified":"2019-09-23T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:20:11","slug":"the-secret-trust-of-aspasia-cruvellier-mirault-the-life-and-trials-of-a-free-woman-of-color-in-antebellum-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58939","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uapress.com\/product\/the-secret-trust-of-aspasia-cruvellier-mirault\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uapress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Arkansas Press<\/a><br \/>\nAugust 2008<br \/>\n180 pages<br \/>\n6 x 0.8 x 9 inches<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-13: 978-1557288806<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/janice-sumler-edmond-b825448\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Janice L. Sumler-Edmond<\/strong><\/a>, Professor Emerita of History<br \/>\n<em>Huston-Tillotson University, Austin, Texas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uapress.com\/product\/the-secret-trust-of-aspasia-cruvellier-mirault\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-shop_single size-shop_single wp-post-image\" title=\"The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpressua.uark.edu\/uapress\/files\/2014\/05\/sumleredmond.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wordpressua.uark.edu\/uapress\/files\/2014\/05\/sumleredmond.png\" data-caption=\"\" data-large_image=\"https:\/\/wordpressua.uark.edu\/uapress\/files\/2014\/05\/sumleredmond.png\" data-large_image_width=\"275\" data-large_image_height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this fascinating biography set in nineteenth-century <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Savannah,_Georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Savannah, Georgia<\/a>, Janice L. Sumler-Edmond resurrects the life and times of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aspasia_Cruvellier_Mirault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_people_of_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free woman of color<\/a> whose story was until now lost to historical memory. It\u2019s a story that informs our understanding of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antebellum_South\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">antebellum South<\/a> as we watch this widowed matriarch navigate the social, economic, and political complexities to create a legacy for her family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this fascinating biography set in nineteenth-century Savannah, Georgia, Janice L. Sumler-Edmond resurrects the life and times of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, a free woman of color whose story was until now lost to historical memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,8,17,20],"tags":[30289,3192,30290,21351,2315],"class_list":["post-58939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-aspasia-cruvellier-mirault","tag-georgia","tag-janice-l-sumler-edmond","tag-savannah","tag-university-of-arkansas-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58939","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=58939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58941,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58939\/revisions\/58941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}