Mother of Orphans: The True and Curious Story of Irish Alice, a Colored Man's Widow
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In Mother of Orphans, Dedria Humphries Barker shares the compelling true story of her great-grandmother Alice, an Irish-American woman who overcame restrictive society and family views, to form a family with a clack man and their mulatto children in Ohio in 1899, until his death forced her to put her children in an orphanage. The author discovers how and why Alice died convention for women of her time by making this unpopular decision, which she and her African American family members would benefit from years later. Contains historical photographs.