Help me to find my people : the African American search for family lost in slavery /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Heather Andrea (Author)
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
Civil rights and social justice.
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Online Access:HeinOnline UNC Press Law Publications
HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World
HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice
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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.