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Description

1. xv, 384 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

1. Recounts the lives of the Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave who cast off their blemished roots and achieved affluence in part through a surprisingly successful funeral parlor business. Their wealth afforded the Harlestons the comfort of chauffeurs, tailored clothes, and servants whose skin was darker than theirs. It also launched the family into a generation of glory as painters, performers, and photographers in the "high yellow" society of America's colored upper class. The Harlestons' remarkable 100-year journey spans the waning days of Reconstruction, the precious art world of the early 1900s, the back alleys of the Jazz Age, and the dawn of the civil rights movement.--From publisher description.

Subject

1. Harleston family
2. Harleston (Famille)
3. Harleston family
4. Harleston
5. Forrest
6. Jenkins
7. Mickey
8. Whitlock
9. Wheeler
10. African American families > South Carolina > Charleston Region > Biography
11. Racially mixed families > South Carolina > Charleston Region > Biography
12. Upper class African Americans > South Carolina > Charleston Region > Biography
13. Interracial marriage > South Carolina > Charleston Region > History
14. Enslaved persons > South Carolina > Charleston Region > Biography
15. African Americans > South Carolina > Charleston Region > Biography
16. Enslavers > South Carolina > Charleston Region > Biography
17. Slaveholders > South Carolina > Charleston Region > Biography
18. African American families > Biography
19. Racially mixed people > United States > Biography
20. Familles noires américaines > Biographies
21. African American families
22. African Americans
23. Interracial marriage
24. Race relations
25. Racially mixed people
26. Slaveholders
27. Enslaved persons
28. Charleston Region (S.C.) > Biography
29. Charleston Region (S.C.) > Race relations
30. South Carolina > Charleston Region
31. United States
32. United States, South Carolina, Charleston, Charleston > Minorities > Genealogy

Genre/Form

1. Biography
2. Biography.
3. Biographies
4. Family histories.
5. Biographies.
6. Histoires familiales.

Contents

1. Preface -- Part 1-The Master and His Orphans-Part 2-High Yellow-Porch 3 -Eyes Sadder Then the Grave-Part 4-Nigger Rich-Part 5-The Orphans Dancers-Part 6-A Trunk in the Grass-Notes-Permission and Photography Credits-Acknowledgments-Index. If.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.