“The Mark Unmistakably Fixed upon Their Brows”
“The Mark Unmistakably Fixed upon Their Brows”
A Free Family of Color on America’s Borderlands
This chapter explores the tangled web of the Clamorgans, a free black family in antebellum St. Louis. The Clamorgans, who were connected by kinship to many prominent families, reveal how race was carefully cultivated in a borderlands town. The Clamorgans did more that live in a borderlands locale. In particular, this essay explores how the Clamorgans explored the fluidity of racial and social categories in St. Louis to pursue their self-interest. By astutely manipulating their situation, the Clamorgans could move backward and forward across boundaries of every kind to protect themselves and exploit situations to their advantage.
Keywords: Borderlands, Clamorgan, Race, St. Louis
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