Hester Says: July 22, 2010 at 6:14 pm Zari: If a woman whose mother was a slave, who was part-black but of such light complexion that she was able to ???pass as white???, living around 1890 in the United States during a period of intense racism, lied about her personal ancestry and married a white man belonging to an economic class above her, how would we feel about her behavior?