Passing for White: Race, Religion and the Healy Family, 1820-1920

James M. O'Toole

Passing for White: Race, Religion and the Healy Family, 1820-1920
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Country
United States
Published
7 October 2003
Pages
304
ISBN
9781558494176

Passing for White: Race, Religion and the Healy Family, 1820-1920

James M. O'Toole

The story of a mixed-race family, Michael Healy, a white Irish immigrant planter in Georgia; his African American slave and wife Eliza, and their nine children, negotiating the terrain of race and ethnicity in 19th century America. Legally slaves these brothers and sisters were smuggled north prior to the Civil War to be educated. Working at the intersection of church history and racial and ethnic, James O'Toole demonstrates that racial categories have been more fluid than law and custom admit. The Healys found freedom and extraordinary achievement by embracing their Irish heritage and the Catholic faith, while distancing themselves from their African roots and slave status.

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