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The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia

by Janice L. Sumler-Edmond

University of Arkansas Press, 2008
Cloth: 978-1-55728-880-6 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-368-5
Library of Congress Classification F294.S2S86 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 975.872403092

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

In this fascinating biography set in nineteenth-century Savannah, Georgia, Janice L. Sumler-Edmond resurrects the life and times of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, a free woman of color whose story was until now lost to historical memory. It’s a story that informs our understanding of the antebellum South as we watch this widowed matriarch navigate the social, economic, and political complexities to create a legacy for her family.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Janice L. Sumler-Edmond is professor of history and chair of the Department of Humanities and Fine Arts and director of the W.E.B. Dubois Honors Program at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. She is coeditor of two previous books: Freedom’s Odyssey: African American History Essays from Phylon and Black Women’s History at the Intersection of Knowledge and Power: ABWH’s Twentieth Anniversary Anthology.

REVIEWS

“A valuable addition to the scholarship of the antebellum South. Through the author’s research into little known historical territory, scholars can understand better how free black people operated in a southern city.”
—Diane Batts Morrow, author of Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828–1860

“A study that will make a timely contribution to the scholarship of antebellum and post-bellum life in a southern city. The amplification of the struggles and successes of the free black Cruvellier and Mirault families reveals much that is new about the evolution of urban stratification in a slave society.”
—Billy Higgins, author of A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
List of Illustrations	000
Acknowledgments	000
Prologue		000
Chapter 1	The Cruvelliers in Savannah	000
Chapter 2	A Secret Trust Agreement	000
Chapter 3	Hurricanes, Presidents, and the Death of a Matriarch	000
Chapter 4	Black Confederates	000
Chapter 5	Post-Civil War Savannah	000
Chapter 6	Betrayal and Litigation	000
Chapter 7	A Trail Indeed	000
Chapter 8	Reversal of Fortune	000
Epilogue		000
Appendix		000
Notes		000
Selected Bibliography	000
Index		000

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