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Finding Francis : One Family's Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Title
Finding Francis : One Family's Journey from Slavery to Freedom / Elizabeth J West.
ISBN
9781643363592
9781643363578
9781643363585
Publication
Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2022]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Finding Francis, finding family, freeing history. Francis is found. Beyond Francis, a family is found-in archival material that barely deigned to notice their existence. This is the story of Francis Sistrunk and her children, from enslavement into forced migration across South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It spans decades before the Civil War and continues into post-emancipation America. A family story full of twists and turns, Finding Francis reclaims and honors those women who played an essential role in the historical survival and triumph of Black people during and after American slavery. Elizabeth West has created a remarkable 'biohistoriography' of everyday Black resistance, grounded in a determination to maintain enduring connections of family, kinship, and community despite the inhumanity and rapacity of slavery. There is inevitable heartbreak in these histories, but there is also an empowering strength and inspiration-the truth of these lives will indeed set us all free"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
Francis in Georgia: kinship and family formation in the Black antebellum South
Neshoba to Noxubee: pre-Civil War to Reconstruction
Post-Reconstruction and a new century: anxious and audacious times (1870s-1910)
Hillman: a man's story bookended by women
Coda: reflections on methodology.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Family histories.
Family histories.
Biographies.
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