Ginger asked this question about The Vanishing Half:
I wondered if there were really any towns like Mallard in the post-slavery South that we’re made up of light-skinned blacks. Did they exist?
Angel This has me intrigued, as well. I live about an hour and a half from New Orleans and want to research this....
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Brooke Stephens New Orleans has changed too much to see any strong evidence of that past history but if you look closely there are quite a few of the older residents ...more
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