The accidental slaveowner : revisiting a myth of race and finding an American family /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Auslander, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Kitty, > 1822-1851.
Andrew, James O. > (James Osgood), > 1794-1871.
Andrew, James O. > (James Osgood), > 1794-1871
Kitty, > 1822-1851
Methodist Episcopal Church, South > History > 19th century.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
1800-1899
Slavery > Georgia > History > 19th century.
Enslaved women > Georgia > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slaveholders > Georgia > Biography.
Bishops > Georgia > Biography.
Femmes esclaves > Géorgie (État) > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Propriétaires d'esclaves > Géorgie (État) > Biographies.
Évêques > Géorgie (État) > Biographies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Bishops
Slaveholders
Slavery
Enslaved women > Social conditions
Georgia
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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