Finding Francis : One Family's Journey from Slavery to Freedom /

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"Finding Francis, finding family, freeing history. Francis is found. Beyond Francis, a family is found-in archival material that barely deigned to notice their existence. This is the story of Francis Sistrunk and her children, from enslavement into forced migration across South Carolina, Georgi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: West, Elizabeth J., 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sistrunk family.
Sistrunk, Francis, > approximately 1827-between 1880 and 1900 > Family.
Families.
African Americans > Historiography.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American families.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
HISTORY / African American & Black.
African Americans > Southern States > Historiography.
African American women > Social conditions > 19th century.
African American families > Southern States > Biography.
Southern States.
Family histories.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Francis in Georgia: kinship and family formation in the Black antebellum South
  • Neshoba to Noxubee: pre-Civil War to Reconstruction
  • Post-Reconstruction and a new century: anxious and audacious times (1870s-1910)
  • Hillman: a man's story bookended by women
  • Coda: reflections on methodology.

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