{"product_id":"the-secret-trust-of-aspasia-cruvellier-mirault-the-life-and-trials-of-a-free-woman-of-color-in-antebellum-georgia-9781557288806","title":"The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents one woman's drive to eclipse race and gender boundaries. In this fascinating biography set in nineteenth-century Savannah, Georgia, Janice L. Sumler-Edmond resurrects the life and times of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, a free woman of color whose story was until now lost to historical memory. It's a story that informs our understanding of the antebellum South as we watch this widowed matriarch navigate the social, economic, and political complexities to create a legacy for her family.In the spring of 1842, Aspasia entered a secret trust with a white man whose help she needed to become a landower. Sumler-Edmond's research of Aspasia's family and this trust arrangement, the outcome of which was determined by a dramatic three-party trial that went to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1878, provides new perspectives on the African American experience and on American history while telling the memorable story of a remarkable woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA valuable addition to the scholarship of the antebellum South. Through the author's research into little known historical territory, scholars can understand better how free black people operated in a southern city. \"- Diane Batts Morrow, author of \u003ci\u003ePersons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A study that will make a timely contribution to the scholarship of antebellum and post-bellum life in a southern city. The amplification of the struggles and successes of the free black Cruvellier and Mirault families reveals much that is new about the evolution of urban stratification in a slave society.\" - Billy Higgins, author of \u003ci\u003eA Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041333182807,"sku":"9781557288806","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-secret-trust-of-aspasia-cruvellier-mirault-the-life-and-trials-of-a-free-woman-of-color-in-antebellum-georgia-9781557288806","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}