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The role of gender in interracial divorce dynamics, found in social studies by Jenifer L. Bratter and Rosalind B. King, was highlighted when examining marital instability among Black/White unions. [25] White wife/Black husband marriages show twice the divorce rate of White wife/White husband couples by the 10th year of marriage, [25] whereas ...
Interracial marriage. A multiracial European family walking in the park. Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities . In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid -era South Africa as miscegenation.
By 1830, there were 3,775 black (including mixed-race) slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves, which was a small percentage of a total of over two million slaves then held in the South. [ 5] 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. However, The first "documented slave ...
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South is a nonfiction history book by Stephanie Jones-Rogers. They Were Her Property is "the first extensive study of the role of Southern white women in the plantation economy and slave-market system" [1] and disputes conventional wisdom that white women played a passive or minimal role in slaveholding.
One Thousand White Women. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (published by St. Martin's Press in 1998) is the first novel by journalist Jim Fergus. The novel is written as a series of journals chronicling the fictitious adventures of "J. Will Dodd's" ostensibly real ancestor in an imagined "Brides for Indians" program of the ...
Dorothy "Dot" Counts-Scoggins (born March 25, 1942) is an American civil rights pioneer, and one of the first black students admitted to the Harry Harding High School. [ 1 ] After four days of harassment that threatened her safety, her parents withdrew her from the school, but the images of Dorothy being verbally assaulted by her white ...
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Anthony Johnson ( c. 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years and was granted land by the colony. [ 1] He later became a tobacco farmer in Maryland. He attained great wealth after completing his term ...