Families and Freedom
A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era
New York : New Press, 1997.
Format: Book
Description: xx, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Through the letters and testimony of freed slaves, this work tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tumultuous years of the American Civil War era. Former slaves, free blacks and their contemporaries recount the elation accompanying the reunion of brothers and sisters separated for half a lifetime and the anguished realization that time lost could never be made up. There is also the satisfaction of legitimizing a marriage once denied by law and the unspeakable sadness of discovering that a long-lost spouse had remarried, the pride of establishing an independent household and the shame of not being able to protect it.
Subjects:
Freed persons -- Correspondence.
African American families -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- Sources.
African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877 -- Sources.
Freed persons -- Correspondence.
African American families -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- Sources.
African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877 -- Sources.
ISBN:
1565840267
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Fam | North Main | Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Slavery Fam | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index.