Help me to find my people : the African American search for family lost in slavery / / Heather Andrea Williams
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| Autore: |
Williams Heather Andrea
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| Titolo: |
Help me to find my people : the African American search for family lost in slavery / / Heather Andrea Williams
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.3/620973 |
| 973.0496073 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Slavery - Social aspects - United States - History |
| African American families - History | |
| Enslaved persons - Family relationships - United States - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 enslave |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Help me to find my people |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908426-9-5 |
| 1-4696-0168-0 | |
| 0-8078-8265-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822845403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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