Help me to find my people [electronic resource] : the African American search for family lost in slavery / Heather Andrea Williams.
Electronic resources
Record details
- ISBN: 9780807882658
- ISBN: 9798890842695
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations
- Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
- Distributor: [Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2016]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-233) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on PDF title page, viewed October 1, 2016. |
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| Subject: | African American families > History. Enslaved persons > Family relationships > United States > History. Slavery > Social aspects > United States > History. |
