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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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 | #999011 in Books |  Heather Andrea Williams |  2016-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x.70 x6.10l,.0 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

 | 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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||18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| Eloquently delivers the missing piece of our shared American story.|By MamaNitaj|Thoughtfully written, well researched, and insightfully crafted. This book connected me to the stories that were handed down in my own family from slavery of my ancester who, after the slaves were freed, walked from plantation to plantation to gather her children who had been heartbreakingly sol| |I highly recommend [this book] for shining its spotlight on a seldom-considered source, the 'Information Wanted' advertisements, and for Williams' masterful focus on the emotional toll of U.S. slavery on those held in its thrall.--Afrigeneas.com||

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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 readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories ...

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