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The Library Recommend for the Month of October …
For the month of October, the Toledo-Lucas County Public
Library recommends the book Help Me to Find My People:
The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
by Heather Andrea Williams (The John Hope Franklin Series in
African American History and Culture). This book is a
perfect companion for attendees of the Library’s upcoming
workshop African American Genealogy and the Pursuit of
Family History scheduled from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday,
October 25 in the McMaster Center of Main Library, 325
Michigan St. (Register for this FREE event by calling
419.259.5233).
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.
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Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation
and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward
reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved
and freed people as they tried to come to terms with great
loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing,
frustration and hope in the history of American slavery and
the domestic slave trade.
Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their
searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She
also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility or
empathy expressed by whites about sundry black families.
Williams shows how searches for family members in the
post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in
African-American culture in the ongoing search for family
history and connection across generations. |
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Copyright © 2014 by [The Sojourner's Truth]. All rights reserved.
Revised:
08/16/18 14:12:28 -0700. |
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