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Book Review
| Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 18201920. By James M. O'Toole. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. xiv, 284 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-55849-341-7.)
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Spanning the century leading up to 1920, this book recounts the
story of Michael Morris Healy, a "white" Irish immigrant planter
in Georgia; his wife, Eliza Clary Healy, an African American slave;
and their nine children, one of whom became president of Georgetown
University in the late nineteenth century.
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