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Against the Expected Order : Charles and Bettie Birthright: Enslavement, Enterprise, Philanthropy, and the Racial Imagination in Missouri

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Born into slavery in Virginia and Tennessee, Charles and Bettie Birthright built a remarkable life in Clarkton, Missouri. Their story reaches from the anonymous federal slave schedules and the households of C. E. Birthright and the Pankey family through emancipation, skilled work, landownership, lending, civic influence, philanthropy, and the long struggle over how a community remembers its past.

This expanded historical research edition brings together county histories, census and tax records, wills, estate references, family correspondence, local testimony, and archival leads. It places the Birthrights within the wider worlds of the Civil War, M. Jeff Thompson, Reconstruction-era Missouri, Virginia family networks, and Black institution-building. It also distinguishes documented fact from plausible identification, particularly the working hypothesis that Charles was the unnamed male whose age follows C. E. Birthright from the 1850 Weakley County slave schedule to the 1860 Dunklin County schedule.

Written for family historians, local-history researchers, genealogists, educators, and readers of African American history, the book preserves a compelling record while identifying the documents still needed to resolve the story's remaining questions.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798174148475
  • ISBN-10: 9798174148475
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: October 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.29 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.42 pounds
  • Page Count: 134

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