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The Accidental Slaveowner The Accidental Slaveowner Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family MARK AUSLANDER © 2011 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Designed by April Leidig-Higgins Set in New Baskerville by Copperline Book Services, Inc. Printed digitally in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Auslander, Mark. The accidental slaveowner : revisiting a myth of race and finding an American family / Mark Auslander. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0 -8203-4042-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0 -8203-4042-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0 -8203-4043-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN- 10: 0 -8203-4043-x (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Slavery — Georgia — History — 19th century. 2. Women slaves — Georgia — Social conditions — 19th century. 3. Kitty, 1822–1851 — Biography. 4. Slaveholders — Georgia — Biography. 5. Andrew, James O. (James Osgood), 1794–1871 — Biography. 6. Bishops — Georgia — Biography. 7. Methodist Episcopal Church, South — History — 19th century. I. Title. E445.G3A97 2011 975.8′041 — dc22 2011012913 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available ISBN for this digital edition: 978-0-82034192-7 Dedicated to Lee Bradley Caldwell (1925–2010) Ellen Schattschneider John Pliny (“J. P.”) Godfrey Jr. and the memory of all enslaved persons owned by James Osgood Andrew Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Prologue Part One. Memory, Myth, and Kinship 1 The Myth of Kitty 2 Distant Kin: Slavery and Cultural Intimacy in a Georgia Community Part Two. Slavery as a Mythical System 3 “The Tenderest Solicitude for Her Welfare”: Founding Texts of the Andrew- Kitty Narrative 4 “As Free as I Am”: Retelling the Narrative 5 “The Other Side of Paradise”: Mythos and Memory in the Cemetery 6 “The Most Interesting Building in Georgia”: The Strange Career of Kitty’s Cottage Part Three. Families Lost and Found 7 Enigmas of Kinship: Miss Kitty and Her Family 8 “Out of the Shadows”: The Andrew Family Slaves 9 Saying Something Now Appendix 1. Guide to Persons Mentioned in the Text Appendix 2. Timeline Appendix 3. Kitty’s Possible Origins Appendix 4. Kitty’s Children Appendix 5. The Greenwood Slaves, Postemancipation Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations FIGURES 1.1. Schneider on American kinship 1.2. The “white” myth 1.3. Kitty’s marriage to the “legally free” Nathan Shell as a relationship of law 7.1. Distribution of Nathan Boyd’s enslaved family 7.2. Nathan Boyd’s family 7.3. Family relations of Emma 7.4. Family of Russell Nathan Boyd 7.5. Family of Alford (Alfred) Boyd 8.1. The McFarlane slaves 8.2. Slave transfers in the Greenwood estate, 1805–55 8.3. Additional slave transfers by Ann Leonora Mounger Greenwood 8.4. Likely slave transfers by Bishop Andrew after the death of Ann Leonora Mounger Greenwood PHOTOGRAPHS Following page 180 Oxford cemetery. Bishop Andrew obelisk in foreground; Kitty memorial at base of water oak. Kitty’s Cottage, ca. 1930 Kitty’s Cottage in Salem Campground, 1948 Kitty’s Cottage, 2010 Oxford African American community, early twentieth century First Afrikan Presbyterian (Lithonia) performs Ancestral Walk and African Naming Ceremony, Kitty’s Cottage, June 19, 2008. Cynthia and Darcel Caldwell, with Oxford Mayor Jerry Roseberry, Old Church, Oxford, Ga., February 6, 2011 Oxford College students and community members read names of enslaved Oxford residents, Old Church, Oxford, Ga., February 6, 2011. Darcel and Cynthia Caldwell, with historical documents on the Miss Kitty story, February 3, 2011 Dr. Joe Pierce Jr. and Aaronetta Pierce next to Unraveling Miss Kitty’s Cloak Detail from Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier’s Unraveling Miss Kitty’s Cloak
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