Help Me to Find My People The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery

Name: Help Me to Find My People The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
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ISBN: 9780807835548

ISBN-10: 0807835544

ISBN-13: 9780807835548

Edition: 2012

Authors: Heather Andrea Williams

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After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144