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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.
Martha Strudwick Young (Jan. 11, 1862–May 9, 1941) [1] was an American regionalist writer known for her recounting of Southern folk tales, fables, and songs of black life in the plantation era. She was admired by other writers for her skill with dialect.
Scholar Arlene R. Keizer, writing about a work by the African-American artist Kara Walker, argues that she uses cut-paper silhouette to cast "the entire family, white and black, slave masters, slave mistresses, enslaved 'concubines,' and children (following the condition of the mother), into shadow...a dysfunctional family portrait, referencing both the biological families engendered through ...
That became the setting and premise for many of his later works. He was the eldest of 12 children, raised by his aunt, who was disabled and had to crawl to get around the house. Although born generations after the end of slavery, Gaines grew up impoverished, living in the old slave quarters on the plantation. [3]
[2] [3] Her maiden name, Faust, had been adopted from the plantation owner who owned her father's family before the Civil War, Cane Faust. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The family moved to Glastonbury, Connecticut in 1900, [ 2 ] [ 5 ] where Tillman became the only African-American attending Glastonbury High School , graduating in 1909 as the first African ...
Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham (March 15, 1817 – May 4, 1887) was an American planter and slave trader. She became the wealthiest woman in Tennessee and a plantation owner in her own right after the 1846 death of her first husband, Isaac Franklin.
At the time, all education was private, depending on families who could afford to send children to academies or hire private tutors, or students who worked their way through getting an education. After his tenure, Murphey continued to work on ideas for the state; in 1819 he drafted a program to build roads and canals throughout the state in ...
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.