Help Me to Find My People : The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Heather Andrea (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Familjer > historia.
Slavar > historia.
Afro-amerikanska familjer > historia.
Slaveri > sociala aspekter > historia.
Trennung
Sklaverei
Familie
Schwarze
Slaves > Family relationships.
Slavery > Social aspects.
African American families.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Esclaves > Relations familiales > États-Unis > Histoire.
Familles noires americaines > Histoire.
Slaves > Family relationships > United States > History.
African American families > History.
Slavery > Social aspects > United States > History.
USA
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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