Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 612 g
Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family
Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 612 g
ISBN: 978-0-8203-4043-2
Verlag: University of Georgia Press
What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about the US’s difficult racial past? Part history, part anthropology, and part detective story, this traces, from the 1850s to the present day, how different groups of people have struggled with one powerful story about slavery – the story of the enslaved woman known as “Kitty” and her owner, Methodist bishop James Osgood Andrew. For many local whites, Bishop Andrew was only “accidentally” a slaveholder; local African Americans tend to insist that Miss Kitty was the Bishop’s coerced lover and that she was denied her basic freedoms.
