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03527aam a2200421 i 4500 001 309E152C49F311ED9CAF447533ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221012010028 008 210901t20222022nyuaj b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0197531792 020 $a 9780197531792 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCO $d YDX $d CDX $d UIU $d STF $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a E663 $b .M75 2022 082 04 $a 973.5092/2 $2 23 100 1 $a Morales, R. Isabela, $e author. 245 10 $a Happy dreams of liberty : $b an American family in slavery and freedom / $c R. Isabela Morales. 264 1 $a New York, NY, United States of America : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xii, 319 pages : $b illustrations, genealogical tables ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-310) and index. 520 $a "When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old white planter left behind hundreds of slaves, thousands of acres of rich cotton land, and a net worth of approximately $200,000. In life, Samuel had done little to distinguish himself from other members of the South's elite slaveholding class. But he made a name for himself in death by leaving almost the entirety of his fortune to his five sons, four daughters, and two nieces: all of them his slaves. In this deeply researched, movingly narrated portrait of the extended Townsend family, R. Isabela Morales reconstructs the migration of this mixed-race family across the American West and South over the second half of the nineteenth century. Searching for communities where they could exercise their newfound freedom and wealth to the fullest, members of the family homesteaded and attended college in Ohio and Kansas; fought for the Union Army in Mississippi; mined for silver in the Colorado Rockies; and, in the case of one son, returned to Alabama to purchase part of the old plantation where he had once been held as a slave. In Morales's telling, the Townsends' story maps a new landscape of opportunity and oppression, where the meanings of race and freedom--as well as opportunities for social and economic mobility--were dictated by highly local circumstances. During the turbulent period between the Civil War and the rise of Jim Crow at the turn of the twentieth century, the Townsends carved out spaces where they were able to benefit from their money and mixed-race ancestry, pass down generational wealth, and realize some of their happy dreams of liberty."--Front jacket flap. 600 30 $a Townsend family. 650 0 $a Racially mixed families $z United States $x History $y 19th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Freed persons $z United States $x History $y 19th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Racially mixed people $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 650 6 $a Familles meÌtisses $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 19e sieÌcle. 600 37 $a Townsend family. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00213132 650 7 $a Freed persons. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00933987 650 7 $a Racially mixed families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896542 650 7 $a Racially mixed people. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086595 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20221012010746.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=309E152C49F311ED9CAF447533ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search