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Article: Power, Perception, and Interracial Sex: Former Slaves Recall a Multiracial South
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright Southern Historical Association Aug 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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MY FATHER'S NAME WUZ ROBERT STEWART. HE WUZ A WHITE MAN. My mother wuz named Ann. She wuz part Indian. Her father wuz a Choctaw Indian and her mother a black woman-a slave."1 This is how Charley Stewart, a former slave, described his lineage. Stewart was not alone in claiming parents and grandparents of mixed racial heritage; there are many references to mixed-race ancestry in the interviews of ex-slaves collected by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s. The interviews also contain candid observations about interracial unions in general and about how people of African descent understood relationships that crossed social, legal, and racial boundaries. The former slaves ...
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