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by Miss Utera (Author)
In 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, and always 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.
Author Biography
This book, entitled "The Mulindians" is about the mulatto-Indian people of Charles County, Maryland, previously known as "Wesorts," and /or "Wesort-Piscataway Indians." Carmen Uter Proctor-Cook is the grand-daughter of a Wesort-Piscataway woman, Sarah Proctor born in La Plata (Charles County) Maryland in 1889 as a direct descendant from the "bird clan" of the Piscataway Indians. In her four memoirs, called "HeritageCollection," as she recaptures phases of her life, she tells of how she managed her mixed identity by juggling all three segments of her "tri-racial" ancestry; the European (Portuguese), the African (Angolan), and the Indian (Wesort-Piscataway). In the first three books; "Miss Willamina," "The Geechee Lady," and "Secret Castas..".the author tells of the outrageously color-conscious world that she grew up in; ....... the world of her childhood which has changed dramatically, and still growing in terms of racial relationships. In this book, subtitled, "Wesort Woman," the author tells it straight from her hips just as she remembers it. There is no "sugar-coating" to help the medicine go down.
