To browse Academia. Littlefield as my advisor offered hours of guidance and pressed me to ask the questions necessary to produce this dissertation. Each approached my work from a different point of view and helped to broaden the approach I took.
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This article tells the story of a young Charleston physician, John W. Schmidt Jr. The grandmother used various strategies of social and racial self-reinvention as she roamed the Atlantic world. Her acceptance into the Charleston elite was consistent with a traditional definition of race that was social and political rather than biological. The decision by the Medical Society of South Carolina to revoke her grandson's license following a denunciation by a fellow refugee from Saint Domingue and fellow physician, Vincent LeSeigneur, was a manifestation of the rising "scientific racism" whose early advocates were members of the medical profession.
Twenty years later they settled in Charleston, South Carolina, where they became part of the local elite, although by one of their descendants would have his medical license revoked because of his African ancestry. Thanks to Christopher L. Brown, Mamadou Diouf, and Emmanuelle Saada for comments and suggestions.
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