Sumler-Edmond Janice L. Sumler-Edmond

Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault (eBook, PDF)

The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Seitenzahl: 187
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610753685
• Artikelnr.: 42901360

Autorenporträt

Janice L. Sumler-Edmond is professor of history and chair of the Department of Humanities and Fine Arts and director of the W.E.B. Dubois Honors Program at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. She is coeditor of two previous books: Freedom's Odyssey: African American History Essays from Phylon and Black Women's History at the Intersection of Knowledge and Power: ABWH's Twentieth Anniversary Anthology.