The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, a White Slave Trader Married to a Free Woman of Color /

"Historians have long discussed the interracial families of prominent slave dealers in Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere, yet, until now, the story of slave trader Bacon Tait remained untold. Among the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Richmond, Bacon Tait embarked upon a striking and unex...

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Autor principal: Trent, Hank, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Fountain, Courtney.
Tait, Bacon, > 1796-1871.
Fountain, Courtney
Free African Americans > Virginia > Richmond > Biography.
Interracial marriage > Virginia > Richmond > History > 19th century.
Men, White > Virginia > Richmond > Biography.
Slavery > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Slave traders > Virginia > Richmond > Biography.
Slavery > Social aspects.
Slave traders.
Race relations.
Men, White.
Interracial marriage.
Free African Americans.
Noirs americains affranchis > Virginie > Richmond > Biographies.
Mariage interracial > Virginie > Richmond > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Blancs > Virginie > Richmond > Biographies.
Marchands d'esclaves > Virginie > Richmond > Biographies.
Salem (Mass.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Richmond (Va.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Richmond (Va.) > Biography.
Virginia > Richmond.
United States.
Massachusetts > Salem.
History.
Biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
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  • Doing a great deal of business
  • A young gentleman of very respectable parentage and deportment
  • Four doors below the Bell Tavern
  • Another dealer in human flesh and bones
  • A spacious comfortable jail
  • Such diabolical miscreants as Bacon Tait
  • I wish in my soul I could find a good wife
  • Dat de way he git rich
  • Good and worthy citizens
  • He expects to leave Richmond shortly
  • The inexorable jailor
  • Stating he would die of starvation
  • Fighting the tiger and other kindred sports
  • Epilogue.

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