Their son, Francis Lewis Cardozo, was the first black Secretary of State of South Carolina, and he married Catherine Romena Howell, daughter of an Englishwoman and a man of color from the West Indies.

[4] While there, she began to work at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, she soon became the head histological chemist of Surgical Pathology, the first black person to hold such a position.

The marriage was strained and Eslanda suffered under the affairs of her husband that reportedly started with a relationship with Freda Diamond[6] in 1925.

[8] Robeson's long-term liaison with Yolanda Jackson almost broke up the marriage, and Eslanda even agreed to a divorce at one point.

"[14] She also addresses the issue of his infidelity, which he neither confirms or denies; she assures him that she feels that they have such a deep level of love, that past events could not affect it, "No matter what other women have done to you, or you to them, they have in no way walked in my garden.

"[15] Harry Hanson, a New York critic, gave the book a positive review and called it inspiring, and that it was written with "rich understanding" and "deep pride".

[18] Eslanda played Adah in Borderline, an avant-garde classic silent film directed in 1930 by Kenneth MacPherson.

The book's publication was endorsed by Pearl Buck, whose husband was the head of the John Day publishing house.

As a result, American Argument was published in 1949, a book of dialogues and comments, edited by Buck, that lets Eslanda speak on society, politics, gender role, and race relations.

Her brother John had already departed the previous year, and Paul Jr. did not continue with his education at a Moscow "model school".

[24] As a member, Eslanda spoke often and articulately in critique of western colonial powers for subjugating people of color for political and economic gain.

His passport revoked, Robeson's career came to a standstill, their income dropped dramatically, and the Connecticut estate had to be sold.

Fighting for the decolonization of Africa and Asia, she continued to work for the Council on African Affairs and to write as the UN correspondent for the New World Review, a pro-Soviet magazine.

Eslanda made her third and final trip to Africa, attending the first postcolonial All-African Peoples' Conference in Ghana in 1958.