Ingersoll, Thomas N.

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Ingersoll, Thomas N.

PERSONAL:

Male.

ADDRESSES:

Home—OH. Office—Department of History, Ohio State University, 410B Galvin Hall, 4240 Campus Dr., Lima, OH 45804. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Ohio State University, Lima, associate professor of history.

WRITINGS:

Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819, University of Tennessee Press (Knoxville, TN), 1999.

To Intermix with Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from Earliest Times to the Indian Removals, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque, NM), 2005.

Contributor of academic articles to such journals as William and Mary Quarterly and Law and History Review.

SIDELIGHTS:

Thomas N. Ingersoll is a writer and educator at Ohio State University at Lima. His primary areas of research interest include the history of how communities formed in America during the eighteenth century, and he has a particular interest in the society of the southern states. His book Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819 addresses the early history of the city of New Orleans, analyzing the various influences, including French, Spanish, and Caribbean. He also discusses assumptions regarding the treatment of slaves in New Orleans during this period. David C. Rankin, in a review for the Journal of Southern History, called the book "a formidable contribution to a topic that has suffered in recent years from an altogether too transparent search for a usable past."

In To Intermix with Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from Earliest Times to the Indian Removals, Ingersoll turns his attention to the lifestyles of mixed-blood Native Americans and how they dealt with racial prejudices within different societies, particularly in white society. He also addresses how those of mixed race often served as intermediaries between Native Americans and white leaders, particularly when federal policy began to arrange for Native Americans to be removed from their lands.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Journal of Southern History, November, 2000, David C. Rankin, review of Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819, p. 859.

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2006, review of To Intermix with Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from Earliest Times to the Indian Removals.