Passing Strange
A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Format: Ebook
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Description: 370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent Newport family: for thirteen years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker. Unable to marry the black woman he loved, the fair-haired, blue-eyed King passed as a Negro, revealing his secret to his wife Ada only on his deathbed. Historian Martha Sandweiss is the first writer to uncover the life that King tried so hard to conceal. She reveals the complexity of a man who, while publicly espousing a personal dream of a uniquely American amalgam of white and black, hid his love for his wife and their five biracial children.--From publisher description.
Contents:
An invented life -- Clarence King and Ada Copeland -- Becoming Clarence King -- King of the West -- Becoming Ada Copeland -- King of the city -- James and Ada Todd -- New beginnings -- Family lives -- Breakdowns -- Endings -- Ada King -- On her own -- The trial -- Secrets.
Subjects:
King, Clarence, 1842-1901.
King, Ada, 1860-1964.
King, Clarence, 1842-1901 -- Marriage.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies.
Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies.
Married people -- United States -- Case studies.
Deception -- United States -- Case studies.
African American women -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
King, Clarence, 1842-1901.
King, Ada, 1860-1964.
King, Clarence, 1842-1901 -- Marriage.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies.
Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies.
Married people -- United States -- Case studies.
Deception -- United States -- Case studies.
African American women -- Biography.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781440686115 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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Ebook
Electronic resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-358) and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York : Penguin USA, Inc., 2009. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2777 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 440 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 697 KB).
Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-358) and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York : Penguin USA, Inc., 2009. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2777 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 440 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 697 KB).