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Leibman, Laura Arnold.
Subjects
Moses, Sarah Brandon, 1798-1828.
Brandon, Isaac Lopez, 1793-1855.
Brandon family.
Moses family.
Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Jews -- Barbados -- Bridgetown -- History -- 19th century.
Racially mixed people -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Racially mixed people -- Barbados -- History -- 19th century.
Bridgetown (Barbados) -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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Leibman, Laura Arnold.
Moses, Sarah Brandon, 1798-1828.
Brandon, Isaac Lopez, 1793-1855.
Brandon family.
Moses family.
Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Jews -- Barbados -- Bridgetown -- History -- 19th century.
Racially mixed people -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Racially mixed people -- Barbados -- History -- 19th century.
Bridgetown (Barbados) -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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Once we were slaves : the extraordinary journey of a multiracial Jewish family / Laura Arnold Leibman.
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Leibman, Laura Arnold.
Oxford University Press, 2021.
Call #:
974
.7100405
L425o
Subjects
Moses, Sarah Brandon, 1798-1828.
Brandon, Isaac Lopez, 1793-1855.
Brandon family.
Moses family.
Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Jews -- Barbados -- Bridgetown -- History -- 19th century.
Racially mixed people -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
Racially mixed people -- Barbados -- History -- 19th century.
Bridgetown (Barbados) -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780197530474 (hc)
Alternate title:
Extraordinary journey of a multiracial Jewish family
Description:
xvi, 294 p. : ill, genealogical tables ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"An obsessive genealogist and descendent 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."--Publisher.
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