Publisher： Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN： 1748-6858|44|1|83-109
ISSN： 0034-6705
Source： Review of Politics, Vol.44, Iss.1, 1982-01, pp. : 83-109
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Abstract
Although born a slave and held in bondage until past his twenty-first birthday, Blanche K. Bruce escaped the worst cruelties of the Peculiar Institutions. He was born in a slave cabin near Farmville, the county seat of Prince Edward County, Virginia, on 1 March 1841. Youngest of eleven children born to his slave mother Polly, Bruce was an octoroon or quadroon, with light skin and Caucasian features; his father's name and race, however, are apparently unknown.
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