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Blurring the lines of race and freedom : Mulattoes and mixed bloods in English colonial America / A.B. Wilkinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkinson, A. B. (Aaron B.), author.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiracial people--United States--History.
- Multiracial people.
- Multiracial people--United States--Social conditions.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A.B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigating how people of mixed African, European and Native American heritage were integral to the construction of colonial racial ideologies.
- Contents:
- The rise of hypodescent in seventeenth-century English America
- Children of mixed lineage in the colonial Chesapeake
- Mulattoes and Mustees in the northern colonies and Carolinas
- Mixed-heritage identities in the eighteenth century
- Mulatto marriages, partnerships, and intimate connections
- The advantages and disadvantages of blended ancestry.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908588-4-9
- 979-88-908588-5-6
- 1-4696-5899-2
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