Publication

2002 - University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

71,000 words, Guess

Page Count

284 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivepassingforwhiter00otoo
  • ISBN-101558493417
  • ISBN-139781558493414
  • LibraryThing5387
  • Goodreads4566455
and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC973/.0496073/00922
  • DDCB
  • LCCE185.96 .O95 2002
and 1 more
  • LCCE185.96.O95 2002

Description

"Through the prism of one family's experience, this book explores questions of racial identity, religious tolerance, and black-white "passing" in America. Spanning the century from 1820 to 1920, it tells the story of Michael Morris Healy, a white Irish immigrant planter in Georgia; his African American slave Eliza Clark Healy, who was also his wife; and their nine children. Legally slaves, these brothers and sisters were smuggled north before the Civil War to be educated."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Case studies
  • Biography

Links

Other Editions

  • Passing for white: race, religion, and the Healy family, 1820-1920University of Massachusetts Press2002-01-01

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