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.
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Brand: Penguin Press HC, The
$20.79 - $25.99
- UPC:
- 9781594202001
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Publication Date:
- 2009-02-05
- Release Date:
- 2009-02-05
- Author:
- Martha A. Sandweiss
- Language:
- english