Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and cultureDescription
In this deeply researched and moving history, the author chronicles African Americans’ determined efforts to reconstruct families fractured by slavery and the Civil War. Drawing on runaway advertisements, wartime records, Freedmen’s Bureau documents, newspapers, letters, and oral histories, the book reveals how formerly enslaved people searched for spouses, parents, children, and siblings while building new communities and identities. It explores memory, kinship, resilience, and the enduring consequences of family separation, offering a powerful account of African American agency in the aftermath of emancipation.
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paperback
University of North Carolina Press
Published Jan 1, 2012
251 pages
ISBN: 9780807835548
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Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
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First Published
2012
Language
eng
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