Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879

Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879 by Alexander, Adele Logan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781557282149.

In this groundbreaking study, Alexander chronicles the previously undocumented plight of perhaps the most marginal sector of 19th-century American society--the free women of mixed race in the rural South. Although the book focuses on the women of Alexanders own family, it is a fascinating profile of America, its race and gender relations, and its complex cultural weave. (Univ. of Arkansas Press)