Description
We Call Our Daddy Mister – In Defiance of Convention – Life & Times at the Rose Hill Plantation – We Call Our Daddy "Mister" chronicles the story of Burrell Harrell, the son of a Confederate soldier. Harrell refused to abide by the customs and traditions of the Stars and Bars. He took up with a mulatto woman who bore him nine white children, five boys and four girls. They lived as a family in Georgia, contrary to custom and law. Harrell took on all comers to safeguard his children. His children were not accepted as white; they lived a difficult life being neither white nor black, but were conditioned culturally as black.
AUTHOR: James E. Schell
ISBN: 978-1427606921
278 pages
