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Ely: An Autobiography Green Ely Ely Green was born in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1893. His mother was a housemaid, the daughter of a former slave. His father was a member of the white gentry, the son of…
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Ely: An Autobiography Green Ely
Ely Green was born in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1893. His mother was a housemaid, the daughter of a former slave. His father was a member of the white gentry, the son of a former Confederate officer.
He was nearly nine years old before he realized that being different from his white playmates was of any real significance.An incident at a local drugstore marked the beginning of what would be a painful rite of passage from an idyllic childhood through a tormented adolescence as Ely struggled to understand why he could not wholly belong to either his father's world or his mother's. In this small Episcopal community--home to the University of the South--Ely lived his early childhood oblivious to the implications of his illegitimacy and his parentage. "I was having a struggle within," he writes, ". . .
learning to hate white people after I had been taught that they were all God's