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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

Brand: Penguin Press HC, The

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UPC:
9781594202001
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
2009-02-05
Release Date:
2009-02-05
Author:
Martha A. Sandweiss
Language:
english
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Traces the secret double life of a nineteenth-century scientist and surveyor of the post-Civil War American West, revealing the mixed heritage that enabled him to cross color lines and conduct a second existence as a black Pullman porter and steelworker with an African-American wife and five multi-racial children. 30,000 first printing.