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Miss Mary's Money
- Fortune and Misfortune in a North Carolina Plantation Family, 1760-1924
Engelsk
Bogcover for Miss Mary's Money af H. G. Jones, David Southern, H.G. Jones, 9780786496624
Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9780786496624
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0786496622
Udg. Dato:
5 jan 2015
Størrelse i cm:
25,4 x 17,8 x 1,2
Oplagsdato:
5 jan 2015

Miss Mary's Money

- Fortune and Misfortune in a North Carolina Plantation Family, 1760-1924
Engelsk
Paperback 2015
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"Miss Smith, the wealthy old lady who died recently near Chapel Hill, and who bequeathed a large sum of money to the State University, did not fail to remember her old slaves, of whom six are now living," read the New York Times, December 6, 1885. But the Times got it wrong: land, not money, was left to the University of North Carolina and five of Mary Ruffin Smith''s former slaves. Four were also her nieces--sired by her two bachelor brothers--and all had the same mother, the Smiths'' maid Harriet. A spinster, Mary raised the girls, baptized them into the Episcopal Church, married them to respectable biracial men and left each 100 acres in her will.

The result of eight years of research, this book tells the story of the Smith family and the fortune that survived the profligacy of Mary''s father before being willed to the university and the North Carolina Episcopal diocese. Every "legitimate" member of the family lies in a small cemetery near the former estate. Harriet was buried an unmarked grave somewhere in Orange County. The hundreds of descendants of her daughters have been virtually ignored--this book is for them.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9780786496624
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0786496622
Udg. Dato:
5 jan 2015
Størrelse i cm:
25,4 x 17,8 x 1,2
Oplagsdato:
5 jan 2015
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