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Help Me to Find My People

The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
Williams, Heather Andrea (Book - 2012)
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Help Me to Find My People


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Utilizes narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to explore the stories of separation of former slave families and their quest for reunification.

Imprint: Chapel Hill - University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 251
ISBN: 9780807835548, 0807835544
Call number: 306.3620973 W7237h 2012
Language: English
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
Help me to find my people : genealogies of separation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and index
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 -- Help me to find my people : genealogies of separation
Statement of responsibility: Heather Andrea Williams
Characteristics: 251 p. :,ill. ;,25 cm
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