Passing for white
Subtitle: race, religion, and the Healy family, 1820-1920
By: James M. O'Toole.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Healy family.; African Americans -- Biography.; African American families.; Interracial marriage -- United States.; African Americans -- Race identity.; Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.; Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies.; Religious tolerance -- United States -- Case studies.; United States -- Race relations -- Case studies.; Jones County (Ga.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.; Case studies.
Description: "Through the prism of one family's experience, this book explores questions of racial identity, religious tolerance, and black-white "passing" in America. Spanning the century from 1820 to 1920, it tells the story of Michael Morris Healy, a white Irish immigrant planter in Georgia; his African American slave Eliza Clark Healy, who was also his wife; and their nine children. Legally slaves, these brothers and sisters were smuggled north before the Civil War to be educated."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-279) and index.