The secret trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault

By Janice Sumler-Edmond

Subjects: Georgia, biography, Biography, Georgia, social life and customs, African americans, biography, African Americans, Trusts and trustees, Savannah (ga.), history, African American women, Free african americans, Family, Social life and customs, Widows, African american women, History, Georgia, race relations, Free African Americans, Race relations

Description: "In this biography set in nineteenth-century Savannah, Georgia, Janice L. Sumler-Edmond resurrects the life and times of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, a free woman of color whose story was until now lost to historical memory. It's a story that informs our understanding of the antebellum South as we watch this widowed matriarch navigate the social, economic, and political complexities to create a legacy for her family." "In the spring of 1842, Aspasia entered into a secret trust with a white man whose help she needed to become a landowner. Sumler-Edmond's research of Aspasia's family and this trust arrangement, the outcome of which was determined by a dramatic three-party trial that went to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1878, provides new perspectives on the African American experience and on American history while telling the memorable story of a remarkable woman."--BOOK JACKET.