Jumping The Fence
In nineteenth,century New Orleans, Jean Benjamin Esnard and his family struggle to conceal their mixed,race ancestry and pass as white in the increasingly hostile racial environment of the post,Civil War South. Their secret begins to unravel, however, when their son, Adrien, is born darker than his siblings and labeled C for colored on his birth certificate. As desperation sets in, Jean Benjamin and his wife, Florentine must make the heartbreaking decision to separate the family in order to save it. In Jumping the Fence, Maureen Gilmer shares the extraordinary true story of early civil rights activistsher ancestorswho stopped at nothing to protect each other and their assets in the struggle against slavery and segregation.
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