Ambiguous lives : free women of color in rural Georgia, 1789-1879 / Adele Logan Alexander.

Contents Prologue: Heredity -- Pioneers on the Georgia frontier -- Pomegranate Hall -- Plantation life through the Civil War -- On Hunt's Hill -- The Hunt and Dickson wills and more.
Abstract This book focuses on the women of Alexander's own family as representative of a subcaste of the African-American community. Their forbears include Africans, Native Americans, and whites. These women of color live and die in a shadowy realm situated somewhere between the legal, social, and economic extremes of empowered whites and subjugated blacks.
Local noteLittle-473263--3051310689632
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-251) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Alexander, Adele Logan, 1938- Ambiguous lives. Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1991
Genre/formBiography.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 91010151
ISBN1557282145 (alk. paper)
ISBN9781557282149 (alk. paper)
ISBN1557282153 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN9781557282156 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Other class# HI.F 3/178-8:A 524/991

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Joyner General Stacks E185.93.G4 A45 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold