Katy Morlas Shannon

Invisible Blackness explores the complex lives of Creoles of mixed race born in Louisiana to enslaved women and the white men who enslaved them. Individuals such as Alice Thomasson Grice forged their own identities—and often reinvented themselves—within the increasingly strict racial order of antebellum and postbellum Louisiana. Alice Thomasson Grice occupied an unusual position among mixed-race Creoles of her era,...