Review of Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War, by Kendra Taira Field

Over the past three decades, historians have created a thriving body of scholarship that centers questions of race and identity among Black and Indigenous peoples across the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century. Historian Kendra Taira Field's complex and elegant microhistory elevates this scholarly dialogue by tracing the movements of three multiracial freedpeople from whom she descended, Thomas Jefferson Brown, Monroe Coleman, and Alexander "Elic" Davis.