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Help me to find my people the African American search for family lost in slavery /

"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...

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Основен автор: Williams, Heather Andrea.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Серия: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=422061
Подобни документи: Print version:: Help me to find my people.
Съдържание:
  • Fine black boy for sale: separation and loss among enslaved children
  • Let no man put asunder: separation of husbands and wives
  • They may see their children again: white attitudes toward separation
  • Blue glass beads tied in a rag of cotton cloth: the search for family during slavery
  • Information wanted: the search for family after emancipation
  • Happiness too deep for utterance: reunification of families
  • Epilogue. Help me to find my people: genealogies of separation.