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Author Williams, Heather Andrea.

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

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 251 p. : ill.
Series John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Slavery -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
African American families -- History.
Slaves -- Family relationships -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807835548 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807882658 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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