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"Dropped ""from the clouds"": Cincinnati and manumission among the fancy and newly freed, 1831-1901"
This dissertation argues that numerous ex-slave mistresses and the children they produced with white men thoughtfully rebuilt their lives as newly freed people by capitalizing on earlier, sometimes ongoing, ties to white men, but also by relying on themselves and others sharing their circumstances. …