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Cover image for book Wesort-Mulatto-Indians  (An Ethnic Tri-Racial Isolate Group)  of  Port Tobacco and La Plata, Maryland

Wesort-Mulatto-Indians (An Ethnic Tri-Racial Isolate Group) of Port Tobacco and La Plata, Maryland

“The Mulindian Nation”
By:Miss Utera
Publisher:Author Solutions
Print ISBN:9781546232841
eText ISBN:9781546232834
Edition:0
Copyright:2018
Format:Reflowable

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I?n distinct contrast to “grandma-Bessie”, ??the “Geechee Lady”?, who was born in 1888, on a little South Carolina sea-island among the humble descendants of the Cherokee “Trail of Tears”- survivors, crammed together with the descendants of black-slaves into one little, down-trodden island-community?)?,……. grandmother-Sarah, a “?Wesort-Mulatto-Indian”,…(was born one year after Bessie in 1889, in the somewhat more up-to-date, southern city of La Plata).* * * * * * * * * * *Sarah Proctor came into the world among her people, ?the genteel, colored-elite; …?an intermediate color-caste, who were the “free-people-of-color” of southeast Port Tobacco & La Plata, Maryland,… known as the proud, self-sufficient, well-educated, softly-spoken, well-mannered, very well-dressed, andalways smoothly-coiffured, “good-haired” & ?light-skinned? “Wesorts”• It was during an era when ?RACISM was “KING”;? ?a stark-white, ruthless & headless monarch that ranted, ruled, and raged through America.• However, ironically on the other hand, there were those proponents of ?COLORISM? who were said to be found mostly among “lighter people”, who exhibited social airs which caused them to be perceived by most other “Coloureds” as “privileged” little princes & princesses” ?who,…….somehow ?always seemed, to their darker brothers & sisters (?who misunderstood them), to be loyally-emulating their eminent ruler, that metaphorical raging “KING”!• But, for the most part, they were NOT really as disloyal as they were perceived to be,…but, ?“stuck in the middle”? as they were,…they were ?simply ?a very ?misunderstood? group of very good American citizens.