Inheritance, race, and power in Jim Crow–era North Carolina
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Inheritance, race, and power in Jim Crow–era North Carolina
The account centers on a will that leaves land and generational wealth to the children of Zeno Harris, a wealthy White landowner, and Betsy Newborn, a Black woman described as his mistress. Set against Jim Crow in North Carolina, the story connects one family’s inheritance to broader questions of race, property, money, and power in the United States. Its subject is both personal and social: a contested racial order viewed through the consequences of a wealthy man’s bequest.
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Shocking true-life story of a wealthy White landowner, Zeno Harris, leaving in his will large amounts of land and generational wealth to black children he fathered with his black mistress, Betsy Newborn, in North Carolina in spite of Jim Crow, exposing America's hypocritical dirty little secrets about race, money, power and love.
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