Thomas N IngersollThomas N. Ingersoll is Associate Professor at Ohio State University, Lima. His first book was Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819 (1999). In To Intermix with our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Blods in the United States from Earliest Times to the Indian Removals (2005), he explores the social and political problems created by racial mixture. His guiding interest is how people in early America defined legitimate membership in society, who had rights and who did not. Read More Read Less