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03469aam a2200433 i 4500 001 9978921A25A111EC99F17AB23DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211005010046 008 210408s2021 nyua b 001 0ceng 010 $a 2021016423 020 $a 0197530478 020 $a 9780197530474 035 $a (OCoLC)1198017194 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d TOH $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d WIQ $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a nwbb--- 082 00 $a 943/.364089924 $2 23 100 1 $a Leibman, Laura Arnold, $e author. 245 10 $a Once we were slaves : $b the extraordinary journey of a multiracial Jewish family / $c Laura Arnold Leibman. 246 30 $a Extraordinary journey of a multiracial Jewish family 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xvi, 294 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Origins (Bridgetown, 1793-1798) -- From Slave to Free (Bridgetown, 1801) -- From Christian to Jew (Suriname, 1811-12) -- The Tumultuous Island (Bridgetown, 1812-1817) -- Synagogue Seats (New York & Philadelphia, 1793-1818) -- The Material of Race (London, 1815-17) -- Voices of Rebellion (Bridgetown, 1818-24) -- A Woman Valor (New York, 1817-19) -- This Liberal City (Philadelphia, 1818-33) -- Feverish Love (New York, 1819-1830) -- When I am Gone (New York, Barbados, London, 1830-1847) -- Legacies (New York and Beyond, 1841-1860). 520 $a "An obsessive genealogist and descendant 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 artefacts 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Jews $z New York $z New York $x History $y 19th century. 600 10 $a Moses, Sarah Brandon, $d 1798-1828. 600 10 $a Brandon, Isaac Lopez, $d 1793-1855. 600 30 $a Brandon family. 600 30 $a Moses family. 650 0 $a Jews $z Bridgetown $z Bridgetown $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Racially mixed people $z New York $z New York $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Racially mixed people $z Barbados $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Bridgetown (Barbados) $v Biography. 651 0 $a New York (N.Y.) $v Biography. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211005010549.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9978921A25A111EC99F17AB23DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search