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Help Me to Find My People
The African American Search for Family Lost in SlaveryBy Heather Andrea WilliamsNarrated by Robin MilesLength9h 50m
About this audiobook
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 listeners back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores these heartbreaking stories 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 empathy, sympathy, indifference, and hostility 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.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.4 (627)
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GenrePsychology, History
Length9 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byRobin Miles
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 24, 2012
LanguageEnglish
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