A01=Heather Andrea Williams
African American family
African American genealogy
African American history
african american slave families
apprenticeship
Author_Heather Andrea Williams
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Civil War
domestic slave trade
emancipation
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family
family reunification
Freedmen's Bureau
Freedmen’s Bureau
freedom
history of emotions
search for family
separation
slave auction
slave owners
slave traders
Slavery
slaves
Product details
- ISBN 9781469628363
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 154 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2016
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople 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 sundered 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.
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 sundered 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.
Heather Andrea Williams is Presidential Term Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA and author of Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.
