Episode notes
Jill looks at Boston Brahmins, the White Anglo Saxon Protestant class, and their ordered-up caste structure of the 19th century in the context of the Hemmings family, and their friends, who made up what sociologist Adelaide Cromwell termed: “The Other Brahmins.”
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Family History
American History
Class Issues
Boston
African Americans
Boston Brahmins
19th Century America
Black Aristocrats
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Black Invention
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