A01=James M. O'Toole
African-descended families in transition
antebellum social dynamics
Author_James M. O'Toole
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Catholic educational leadership
Catholic institutional influence
challenges to racial binaries
church-supported upward mobility
clerical leadership in New England
community complicity in pa
covert family histories
cross-cultural family lineage
cross-racial kinship stories
cultural assimilation strategies
educational uplift in Northern states
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faith-based social networks
frontier service careers
hidden ancestry in America
hidden identities in public roles
historical accounts of passing
historical memory and identity
identity reshaping in the nineteenth century
interracial family narratives
Irish immigrant family history
law and race in U.S. history
maritime law enforcement history
mixed-heritage American histories
mixed-race achievement stories
moral complexity of identity change
multigenerational reinvention
narratives of resilience under oppression
nineteenth-century education access
North-South cultural contrasts
pathways to social mobility
personal agency in identity formation
personal reinvention in a divided society
race and faith intersections
racial ambiguity in public life
racial politics of the nineteenth century
racialized social expectations
religious vocations and identity
shifting racial categories
siblings overcoming legal barriers
societal perceptions of lineage
Southern family legacies
transformation within restrictive norms
transitions across racial boundaries
unspoken ancestry in communities
Product details
- ISBN 9781558494176
- Weight: 523g
- Dimensions: 154 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 2003
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The story of a mixed-race family, Michael Healy, a white Irish immigrant planter in Georgia; his African American slave and wife Eliza, and their nine children, negotiating the terrain of race and ethnicity in 19th century America. Legally slaves these brothers and sisters were smuggled north prior to the Civil War to be educated. Working at the intersection of church history and racial and ethnic, James O'Toole demonstrates that racial categories have been more fluid than law and custom admit. The Healys found freedom and extraordinary achievement by embracing their Irish heritage and the Catholic faith, while distancing themselves from their African roots and slave status.
