Reconstructing Molly Welsh: Race, Memory and the Story of Benjamin Banneker's Grandmother

Molly Welsh, oral tradition captured in the nineteenth century tells us, was a white Englishwoman who worked as an indentured servant. The same tradition has it that she owned slaves, although she is said to have married (or formed a union with) one of them. I aim not only to recover the life of Mol...

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Main Author: Perot, Sandra W
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2008
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/210
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1215&context=theses