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Passing Strange.(Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line)(Brief article)(Book review)

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This post-Civil War history examines the boundaries of race through the remarkable story of Clarence King, a celebrated scientist of the Gilded Age who crossed the color line in reverse. Shortly after becoming famous for surveying the Western frontier, King fell in love with a former slave named Ada Copeland. For thirteen years, until his death, in 1901, King lived a double ...

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