Help me to find my people : the African American search for family lost in slavery / by Heather Andrea Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Heather Andrea.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history & culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Social aspects--United States--History.

Slavery.

African American families--History.

African American families.

Enslaved persons--Family relationships--United States--History.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Family relationships.

History.

Slavery--Social aspects.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 251 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Designed by Sally Fry.

Set in Minion and Jenson by Rebecca Evans.

Jacket illustration: Quilt by Heather Andrea Williams Photography by Clay Williams.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-233) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

9780807835548

0807835544

OCLC:

756594353