“A Negro Woman Called Bett”

Abstract Thirteen electrophoretic bands of lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme activity were detected in the serum of a 69-year-old Negro woman who died of pseudomonas pneumonia. No evidence of tumor was found at necropsy, and additional studies of the enzymatic activity of crude extracts of liver, lung, spleen, kidney, brain, skeletal muscle, lymph node, and heart revealed 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 separate isoenzyme bands for lactate dehydrogenase isoenzymes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, respectively (a total of 15 isoenzyme bands). Serum and erythrocyte hemolysate from one of two healthy daughters displayed a similar pattern of multiple isoenzyme bands in isoenzymes 2 and 3. The observed pattern is consistent with the heterozygous form of a mutation of the genetic locus controlling synthesis of the M monomer such that two differently charged monomeric proteins are produced, each of which apparently combines with H chains with equal facility, leading to the multiband enzymatic specificity seen.

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The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman.

African American Review ◽

10.2307/3042446 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 147

Author(s):

William L. Andrews ◽

Ellen Tarry ◽

Nellie Y. McKay

Keyword(s):

Negro Woman ◽

The Third

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Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance

African American Review ◽

10.1353/afa.2009.0051 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 43 (2-3) ◽

pp. 515-516

Author(s):

Edward Dauterich

Keyword(s):

Harlem Renaissance ◽

Literary Culture ◽

New Negro ◽

Negro Woman ◽

The Harlem Renaissance

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A “Manifest Violation” of the Rights of Englishmen: Rights Talk and the Law of Property in Early Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Law and History Review ◽

10.1017/s0738248015000279 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

pp. 543-575 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lee B. Wilson

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Large Scale ◽

Political Conflict ◽

Small Scale ◽

Property Law ◽

Negro Woman ◽

Early American ◽

Plantation Economy ◽

The Law ◽

To Come

In 1706, Jamaica's provost marshal received a writ of escheat from the island's Supreme Court of Judicature. The writ directed him to empanel a jury of “Twelve and Lawful Men of the Neighbourhood” who would determine whether the slaves of James Whitchurch, a Jamaican merchant, should be escheated—returned—to the Crown. Did the “Negro Woman Slave Commonly Called Catalina” and her “Seaven Pickaninny” belong to Whitchurch, or could Queen Anne claim her prerogative right to an escheat because the previous owner of the slaves, Charles Delamaine, had died without an heir? The jury found in the Crown's favor, but a dissatisfied Whitchurch petitioned Queen Anne for relief, asking her to return the slaves and quiet his title. Whitchurch's petition, the first Jamaican escheat case to come before the Queen, sparked a transatlantic legal controversy as colonists, Assembly members, and imperial officials weighed the Crown's prerogative right to escheats against local political grievances and the Board of Trade's desire to encourage West Indian settlement and trade. This seemingly mundane conflict over property law quickly acquired constitutional significance, generating the kind of rights talk so familiar to early American historians: Jamaican colonists claimed the rights of Englishmen, and the Jamaican Assembly asserted an institutional capacity akin to Parliament. In this article, I contextualize colonists' rights talk, rooting their claims to English rights in concerns about the administration of property law during a crucial liminal moment in Jamaican history. As the colony transitioned from a small-scale to a large-scale plantation economy and from a society with slaves to a slave society, property and the law that governed it became the focus of intense political conflict.

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