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Here’s some more interesting #history: This is #JuliaChinn. Julia was a slave but had a major impact on politics in Kentucky & America in the 1800s & was a wife to one of our early Vice President’s. But her legacy has been erased from history, literally, historians are still unable to find her grave. Julia was an #octoroon #mixedrace woman (7/8 #European & 1/8 #African in ancestry), born into slavery around 1790. She had grown up in the home of Robert Johnson, where her mother served. His 2nd eldest son, Richard Mentor Johnson began a relationship with Julia & treated her as his common-law wife. They had 2 daughters & she later became manager of his plantation. They were prohibited from marrying because she was a slave. Richard represented Kentucky in the House & in the Senate. He was “unusual” for being open about his relationship & they acted like a married couple. According to oral tradition, other slaves at the plantation were said to be working on their wedding. He acknowledged their children. They took his last name. They inherited property from him & he liberated them. But he never liberated Julia... In 1825, they built the Choctaw Academy which was a school for #NativeAmerican boys. She ends up running that too. She was also a nurse & took care of the students. A cholera pandemic came in 1833 & she was responsible for aiding them once a student got exposed. It spread quickly. Sadly, she succumbed to the disease as well & passed away. Richard became VP in 1836 but was considered very unhappy after Julia passed. Once he passed away in 1850, all remaining evidences of their relationship were destroyed by his family. *Thanks again to all the medical professionals helping us during our own pandemic.* 🇺🇸🏴🏳️ #womenshistorymonth #mixedgirl https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Uq5EFldjm/?igshid=1em91mobtgr0m

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There’s Nothing Quite Like An Octoroon

Picture caption: Neal A. Ghant and Kylie Brown perform in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “An Octoroon” at Actor’s Express. CONTRIBUTED BY CASEY GARDNER PHOTOGRAPHY Photo: For the AJC

As a way to partake in the festivities happening in my hometown of Atlanta, I accepted an invitation to attend the play, “An Octoroon” currently in rotation at Actor’s Express located in the King Plow Arts Center.

There are times where our quest for ‘wanderlusting’ takes an unexpected turn and this moment fits the bill.

Going to the theatre is one of those activities we deem, necessary in a ‘wanderer’s’ life. It’s EXPRESSIVE. It offers ESCAPISM. It’s CAPTIVATING and sometimes it’s also JARRING, which can be a contradiction to the very essence of WANDERLUSTING.

I don’t think I was thinking it would be a JARRING experience as much as I thought it would be captivating and my escapism from work and well, Super Bowl. However, I would suddenly encounter an experience that left me discombobulated, to say the least.

If you’re unaware, an Octoroon was a term used to describe a person who is 1/8th black. The root word octo to form eighth and the ending, roon, deriving from...coon? Well if you ask Virginia’s current governor, Ralph Northam, I’m sure he would disagree on the latter. I digress.

Basically, if you were able to “pass” for white, back in the day, you were considered an “Octoroon”. There was “slave talk”, black face, white face, Asian actors as slaves and slaves speaking in modern-day talk and epithets, while also speaking in “coon” language. *Let it be noted, I am an African-American* it was mind-spinning.

To put it in perspective, “An Octoroon” does an amazing job of addressing racism, identity politics, gross stereotypes and it’s juxtaposition in modern-day versus past history to illustrate while some things have changed, many things have not and they also have simply changed clothes.

Check out a brilliant review by the AJC and in celebratory Black History month, if you’re planning to visit Atlanta, home of ‘The Civil Rights Movement” this play is a must see.

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An inconvenient history about the fates of Australian indigenous peoples~

The brutal policy of “assimilation” in Australia

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Are we to allow the creation of an unwanted third race? Should the coloreds be encouraged to go back to the Black? Or should they be advanced to white status and be absorbed in the white population? …..No trace of native origin is apparent. The continuing infiltration of white blood finally stamps out the black color.

The aboriginal has simply been breed out.

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