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Others treated their multiracial children as property; Alexander Scott Withers, for instance, sold two of his children to slave traders, where they were sold again. Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) is a historical novel, later a movie, that brought knowledge of the "children of the plantation" to public attention.
Jane Bolling Randolph. Randolph was born on the Turkey Island Plantation along the James River in Henrico County, Virginia around 1691. [1] [2] He married Jane Bolling (1703–1766), [6] John Bolling's daughter, in 1724 and the couple had seven children who reached adulthood: [1] [2] [7] [nb 2]
"Family amalgamation among the Men-stealers" (Picture of Slavery in the United States of America by Rev. George Bourne, published by Edwin Hunt in Middletown, Conn., 1834) A shadow family was an unacknowledged child or children created by a white male slave owner with a female slave. Often they lived in physical proximity to their father, and a ...
Ursula Granger Hughes was born in 1787 [4]: 191 and enslaved at birth by Thomas Jefferson on his private plantation in Monticello. [3] Ursula had strong family ties in Monticello as she was the granddaughter of the "King" and "Queen" of Monticello, George and Ursula Granger. [1]
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. (December 4, 1765 – September 14, 1843) was an English-born planter, merchant and slave trader who moved as a child with his family to the Province of South Carolina and enjoyed a successful mercantile career.
Likewise, in the Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838–1839 (1863), Fanny Kemble, the English wife of an American planter, noted the immorality of white slaveholders who kept their mixed-race children enslaved. [20] But some white fathers established common-law marriages with enslaved women.
According to the oral history of her descendants, Betty was the daughter of a "White captain of an English trading vessel" and "a full-blooded African" mother, making Elizabeth a mulatto. In his memoir, Madison Hemings said the captain's surname was Hemings; the family tradition was that he had tried to buy Betty when he discovered his daughter ...
Kunta Kinte was based on family oral tradition accounts of one of Haley's ancestors, a Gambian man who was born around 1767, enslaved, and taken to America where he died around 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in Roots is a mixture of fact and fiction.