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The accidental slaveowner : revisiting a myth of race and finding an American family /
What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past? Part history, part anthropology, and part detective story, this book traces, from the 1850s to the present day, how different groups of people have struggled with one powerful story about slavery. For over...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The myth of Kitty
- Distant kin : slavery and cultural intimacy in a Georgia community
- "The tenderest solicitude for her welfare" : founding texts of the Andrew-Kitty narrative
- "As free as I am" : retelling the narrative
- "The other side of paradise" : mythos and memory in the cemetery
- "The most interesting building in Georgia" : the strange career of Kitty's cottage
- Enigmas of kinship : Miss Kitty and her family
- "Out of the shadows" : the Andrew family slaves
- Saying something now.