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Item specifics
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9781557288806
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
ISBN-10
1557288801
ISBN-13
9781557288806
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66103719
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
180 Pages
Publication Name
Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault : The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Death, Grief, Bereavement, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, Estates & Trusts, Customs & Traditions, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Law, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-013233
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"A valuable addition to the scholarship of the antebellum South. Through the author's research into little known historical territory, scholars can understand better how free black people operated in a southern city." --Diane Batts Morrow, author of Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860, A valuable addition to the scholarship of the antebellum South. Through the author's research into little known historical territory, scholars can understand better how free black people operated in a southern city. - Diane Batts Morrow, author of Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860 ""A study that will make a timely contribution to the scholarship of antebellum and post-bellum life in a southern city. The amplification of the struggles and successes of the free black Cruvellier and Mirault families reveals much that is new about the evolution of urban stratification in a slave society."" - Billy Higgins, author of A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas, "A study that will make a timely contribution to the scholarship of antebellum and post-bellum life in a southern city. The amplification of the struggles and successes of the free black Cruvellier and Mirault families reveals much that is new about the evolution of urban stratification in a slave society." --Billy Higgins, author of A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas
Illustrated
Yes
Synopsis
Features the life and times of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, a free woman of color. This book presents a story that informs our understanding of the antebellum South as we watch this widowed matriarch navigate the social, economic, and political complexities to create a legacy for her family., This book presents one woman's drive to eclipse race and gender boundaries. In this fascinating biography set in nineteenth-century Savannah, Georgia, Janice L. Sumler-Edmond resurrects the life and times of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, a free woman of color whose story was until now lost to historical memory. It's a story that informs our understanding of the antebellum South as we watch this widowed matriarch navigate the social, economic, and political complexities to create a legacy for her family.In the spring of 1842, Aspasia entered a secret trust with a white man whose help she needed to become a landower. Sumler-Edmond's research of Aspasia's family and this trust arrangement, the outcome of which was determined by a dramatic three-party trial that went to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1878, provides new perspectives on the African American experience and on American history while telling the memorable story of a remarkable woman., In this fascinating biography set in nineteenth-century Savannah, Georgia, Janice L. Sumler-Edmond resurrects the life and times of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, a free woman of color whose story was until now lost to historical memory. It's a story that informs our understanding of the antebellum South as we watch this widowed matriarch navigate the social, economic, and political complexities to create a legacy for her family.
LC Classification Number
F294.S2S86 2008
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