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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Born a Slave: Rediscovering Arthur Jackson's African American Heritage

Born a Slave: Rediscovering Arthur Jackson's African American Heritage

Jackson, David W.

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ISBN10: 0970430817
ISBN13: 9780970430816
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 26 2015
Pages: 330
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
By the close of the Civil War in 1865 all American slaves became free citizens. Suddenly a new life dawned for them and their descendants. Arthur Jackson, a slave born in 1856 in Kanawha County, Virginia, was nine-years-old when he and his family were emancipated in Franklin County, Missouri. He took the surname of his master, Richard Ludlow Jackson, Sr., within whose household he was born and lived intermittently until adulthood. Eventually Arthur met Ida May Anderson, a white woman, and they raised a family together. Their six children passed for white and Arthur's African American heritage became a family secret and was eventually forgotten. During the following century, five generations of Arthur and Ida's descendants lived as white Americans. Thirty years of genealogical research by one of their great-great-grandsons, the author, revealed the secret that Arthur was born a slave, that he and Ida were a biracial couple, and that their children were of mixed racial heritage. Born a Slave: Rediscovering Arthur Jackson's African-American Heritage explores this man's birth, childhood, life as a freedman, his ancestry, and his master's family. It also calls all Americans-regardless of apparent race or ethnicity-to abandon preconceptions and explore their every ancestor objectively and with an open mind . . . especially if they may have been a slaveholder, or if they were born a slave.

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