Green Sharony Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Black and White Intimacies in Antebellum America 9780875807232

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Автор: Green Sharony
Название: Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Black and White Intimacies in Antebellum America
ISBN: 9780875807232
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Рабство и отмена рабства

Исследования азиатских и африканских этнических групп

Социология: сексуальные отношения

ISBN-10: 0875807232
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 200
Вес: 0.35 кг.
Дата издания: 31.07.2015
Язык: English
Размер: 154 x 231 x 19
Подзаголовок: Hidden black-white intimacies in antebellum america
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Поставляется из: Англии
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It is generally recognized that antebellum interracial relationships were notorious at the neighborhood level. But we have yet to fully uncover the complexities of such relationships, especially from freedwomens and childrens points of view. While it is known that Cincinnati had the largest per capita population of mixed race people outside the South during the antebellum period, historians have yet to explore how geography played a central role in this outcome.

The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers made it possible for Southern white men to ferry women and children of color for whom they had some measure of concern to free soil with relative ease. Some of the women in question appear to have been fancy girls, enslaved women sold for use as prostitutes or mistresses. Green focuses on women who appear to have been the latter, recognizing the problems with the term mistress, given its shifting meaning even during the antebellum period. Remember Me to Miss Louisa, among other things, moves the life of the fancy girl from New Orleans, where it is typically situated, to the Midwest. The manumission of these women and their children—and other enslaved women never sold under this brand—occurred as Americas frontiers pushed westward, and urban life followed in their wake. Indeed, Greens research examines the tensions between the urban Midwest and the rising Cotton Kingdom. It does so by relying on surviving letters, among them those from an ex-slave mistress who sent her love to her former master. This relationship forms the crux of the first of three case studies. The other two concern a New Orleans young woman who was the mistress of an aging white man, and ten Alabama children who received from a white planter a $200,000 inheritance (worth roughly $5.1 million in todays currency). In each case, those freed people faced the challenges characteristic of black life in a largely hostile America.

While the frequency with which Southern white men freed enslaved women and their children is now generally known, less is known about these mens financial and emotional investments in them. Before the Civil War, a white Southern mans pending marriage, aging body, or looming death often compelled him to free an African American woman and their children. And as difficult as it may be for the modern mind to comprehend, some kind of connection sometimes existed between these individuals. This study argues that such men—though they hardly stand excused for their ongoing claims to privilege—were hidden actors in freedwomens and childrens attempts to survive the rigors and challenges of life as African Americans in the years surrounding the Civil War. Green examines many facets of this phenomenon in the hope of revealing new insights about the era of slavery. Historians, students, and general readers of US history, African American studies, black urban history, and antebellum history will find much of interest in this fascinating study.

Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Black and White Intimacies in Antebellum America, Green Sharony