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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Heather Andrea.

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Slavery.

African American families--History.

African American families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

979-88-9313-039-3

979-88-908426-9-5

1-4696-0168-0

0-8078-8265-8

OCLC:

793510872