tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post6496180586491300317..comments2024-03-27T22:25:42.129-05:00Comments on Reading the Past: An English Rose: an essay by S.K. Rizzolo, author of On a Desert ShoreSarah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-59122140168101372352016-09-29T14:30:50.507-05:002016-09-29T14:30:50.507-05:00Thank youThank youjohnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-39954349659573967192016-03-22T21:13:25.135-05:002016-03-22T21:13:25.135-05:00Fascinating--thank you so much for the reference. ...Fascinating--thank you so much for the reference. I'll check it out.S.K. Rizzolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14760058905585182517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-21380830546845910302016-03-18T21:26:46.903-05:002016-03-18T21:26:46.903-05:00At least one is detailed in Walter Johnson's R...At least one is detailed in Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams (2013), within the section that describes the whites' black anxiety.<br /><br />What Blood Won't Tell: A HISTORY OF RACE ON TRIAL IN AMERICA by Ariela J. Gross is very useful.<br /><br />http://www.arielagross.com/<br />Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-90696239176929852852016-03-15T09:08:27.952-05:002016-03-15T09:08:27.952-05:00I read a continuation of Sanditon a few months ago...I read a continuation of <i>Sanditon</i> a few months ago (by Jane Austen and "Another Lady") and quite enjoyed it. I recall finding Miss Lamb enigmatic and intriguing. At least in this version the heroine Charlotte gets to know her a bit. I too would love to see more authors explore this character.S.K. Rizzolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14760058905585182517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-68621181339730723712016-03-15T08:59:44.277-05:002016-03-15T08:59:44.277-05:00Thank you for this thoughtful comment. I would lik...Thank you for this thoughtful comment. I would like to read more about these trials in America. It's only too easy to imagine what evidence would have been considered appropriate! No doubt every detail of the woman's personal appearance and history was dragged before the court. As for Belle, I tend to agree with you. The film seemed romanticized to me.S.K. Rizzolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14760058905585182517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-86166914347326736852016-03-14T20:52:55.119-05:002016-03-14T20:52:55.119-05:00Jane Austen's Sanditon featured a West Indian ...Jane Austen's <i>Sanditon</i> featured a West Indian heiress of partial African descent, Miss Lamb, described as "tender and chilly." I often have wished for a modern Austen imitator to use her as the heroine of a novel.Foosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-16933700304508115652016-03-14T20:15:06.374-05:002016-03-14T20:15:06.374-05:00In the latter antebellum years the number of slave...In the latter antebellum years the number of slaves whose phenotype was that of 'white,' and so many freed 'mulattos, quadroon, octoroons," created at some times and places an hysteria of anxiety about who was white, and how could anyone tell? Trials went on for months and months, with every aspect of the person -- and most of these seemed to be female -- intimately invaded by the regard and examination of judges, lawyers, juries and audience in the court room.<br /><br />Some of these suits were brought by those attempting to deny the defendants inheritances, because if proven to have that one drop of black blood, they were slave and unable to inherit.<br /><br />Quite like what you described in England.<br /><br />I'm one who is not a fan of Belle, as it is historically and legally incorrect, and the director - writer deliberately changed the facts to tell a story that she wanted to have had happen, but it did not,propagating then, a meretricious idea of the history of African Americans (or African West Indians? though the Caribbean is part of the Americas too! :)) and their legal status in England. But this is me, and others don't see it that way.<br /><br />Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.com