{"id":63312,"date":"2022-03-08T02:49:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T02:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63312"},"modified":"2022-03-08T03:49:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T03:49:53","slug":"love-knows-no-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63312","title":{"rendered":"Love Knows No Barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Love Knows No Barriers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_American_Library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New American Library<\/a><br \/>\n1950 (originally published by Creative Age Press in 1947 as <em>God is for White Folks<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will Thomas<\/strong> [<strong>William Smith<\/strong>] (1900-1970)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LoveKnowsNoBarriers-1.jpg\" width=\"275\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LoveKnowsNoBarriers_Back.jpg\" width=\"275\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many Worlds Mingled at Riverbend Plantation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Riverbend Plantation, isolated and decaying, had seen many strange events, passionate conflict and tragic romance. In the shadows of its crumbling walls you will meet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Beau Beauchamp<\/strong> \u2014 the cast-off son of the white plantation owner and his ravishing, dark Creole mistress.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elisse Leseur<\/strong> \u2014 a beautiful blonde of mixed descent who shunned the offers of wealthy whites and poor Negroes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bartolomew<\/strong> \u2014 an understanding Northerner who put his theories into practice and fought off an enraged mob.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gaynor Brackens<\/strong> \u2014 the hot-blooded son of the leading banker, who determined to have Elisse \u2014 at any price.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riverbend Plantation, isolated and decaying, had seen many strange events, passionate conflict and tragic romance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6940,20],"tags":[33190,33189,7588],"class_list":["post-63312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-new-american-library","tag-will-thomas","tag-william-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63312","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=63312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63327,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63312\/revisions\/63327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}