TY - SER
KW - romantic relationships
KW - racism
KW - Black Americans
AU - Margaret Deland
AB - Deland’s fourth short story collection includes “A Black Drop,” in which Lily, a Southern belle, is engaged to the scion of a Northern abolitionist family. Despite his politics, he leaves Lily when he suspects she may have black ancestry. Lily's question—"Even if I wasn't white, ain't I just the same girl"—goes unanswered.
C1 - 1870s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh
C4 - Literary; Christian
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Short Stories
N1 - Pittsburgh is disguised as Mercer.

"A Black Drop" first appeared in <em>Collier's</em> in 1908.
N2 - Deland’s fourth short story collection includes “A Black Drop,” in which Lily, a Southern belle, is engaged to the scion of a Northern abolitionist family. Despite his politics, he leaves Lily when he suspects she may have black ancestry. Lily's question—"Even if I wasn't white, ain't I just the same girl"—goes unanswered.
PB - Harper & Brothers
PP - New York
PY - 1908
RN - Margaret Deland (1857-1945) was born Margaretta Wade Campbell to Allegheny City, Allegheny County clothing merchants. Her mother died after childbirth and her father died shortly thereafter, so Deland's mother's sister raised her in Manchester, then a borough in Allegheny County. Deland attended boarding school in New York and studied art at Cooper Union. She married Lorin Fuller Deland, Harvard's football coach. Maggie, as she was called, had a deep interest in women's issues and over the years she opened her home to over 60 unwed mothers and their babies. She was a friend to Willa Cather. For magazines, especially <em>Harper's Weekly</em> and <em>The Atlantic Monthly</em>, she published dozens of short stories, most based on her early years in Maple Grove and Manchester. She died in Boston.
EP - 312 p.
TI - R. J.'s Mother and Some Other People
ER -