Passing Strange A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

Martha A. Sandweiss, "Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line"
English | ISBN: 1594202001 | 2009 | 384 pages | MOBI | 687 KB
Traces the secret double life of a nineteenth-century scientist and surveyor of the post-Civil War American West, revealing the mixed heritage that enabled him to cross color lines and conduct a second existence as a black Pullman porter and steelworker with an African-American wife and five multi-racial children. 30,000 first printing.