Once We Were Slaves by Leibman, Laura Arnold;

The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family

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Kiadó OUP USA
Megjelenés dátuma 2021. december 9.

ISBN 9780197530474
Kötéstípus Keménykötés
Terjedelem320 oldal
Méret 160x240x34 mm
Súly 658 g
Nyelv angol

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Szociális kérdések, szociális munka Amerika történelme További könyvek a történettudomány területén Judaizmus

Rövid leírás:

Once We Were Slaves tells the story of a brother and sister who were born enslaved Christians in Barbados yet ended up among the wealthiest white Jews in New York. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic world, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind, family heirlooms, and official documents to show how this transformation was possible. Though their affluence was exceptional, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in the New World and challenges current notions regarding Jews and race in early America.

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Hosszú leírás:

An obsessive genealogist and descendent of one of the most prominent Jewish families since the American Revolution, Blanche Moses firmly believed her maternal ancestors were Sephardic grandees. Yet she found herself at a dead end when it came to her grandmother's maternal line. Using family heirlooms to unlock the mystery of Moses's ancestors, Once We Were Slaves overturns the reclusive heiress's assumptions about her family history to reveal that her grandmother and great-uncle, Sarah and Isaac Brandon, actually began their lives as poor Christian slaves in Barbados. Tracing the siblings' extraordinary journey throughout the Atlantic World, Leibman examines artifacts they left behind in Barbados, Suriname, London, Philadelphia, and, finally, New York, to show how Sarah and Isaac were able to transform themselves and their lives, becoming free, wealthy, Jewish, and--at times--white. While their affluence made them unusual, their story mirrors that of the largely forgotten population of mixed African and Jewish ancestry that constituted as much as ten percent of the Jewish communities in which the siblings lived, and sheds new light on the fluidity of race--as well as on the role of religion in racial shift--in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Once We Were Slaves most definitely "works." It is a book one needs to dive into, step back from, and then reread as the story of this far-flung multiracial family begins to emerge ... Leibman has done a remarkable job of evoking time and place in a vast Atlantic world in which identities were made and remade ... Her discussion of pandemics has an eerily contemporary ring as she reminds us that they are nothing new -- and neither are our responses to them.

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Tartalomjegyzék:

Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1: Origins (Bridgetown, 1793-1798)
Chapter 2: From Slave to Free (Bridgetown, 1801)
Chapter 3: From Christian to Jew (Suriname, 1811-12)
Chapter 4: The Tumultuous Island (Bridgetown, 1812-1817)
Chapter 5: Synagogue Seats (New York & Philadelphia, 1793-1818)
Chapter 6: The Material of Race (London, 1815-17)
Chapter 7: Voices of Rebellion (Bridgetown, 1818-24)
Chapter 8: A Woman Valor (New York, 1817-19)
Chapter 9: This Liberal City (Philadelphia, 1818-33)
Chapter 10: Feverish Love (New York, 1819-1830)
Chapter 11: When I am Gone (New York, Barbados, London, 1830-1847)
Chapter 12: Legacies (New York and Beyond, 1841-1860)
Epilogue
Appendix: Family Trees
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Notes