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Author: Joyce Wilcox Graff
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbraham Freed (1817-1865) married Mary Singer and lived in Bridgville, Delaware. Descendants lived in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Illinois and elsewhere.
Author: Pauli Murray
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2024-06-25
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0807072273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.
Author: Paul R. Begley
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Herbert G. Gutman
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1977-07-12
Total Pages: 770
ISBN-13: 0394724518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.
Author: Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0807882658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter 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.
Author: Gwenyth Swain
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780873514835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford, in which the slave Dred Scott was denied freedom for himself and his family, raised the ire of abolitionists and set the scene for the impending conflict between the northern and southern states. While most people have heard of the Dred Scott Decision, few know anything about the case's namesake. In this meticulously researched and carefully crafted biography of Dred Scott, his wife, Harriet, and their daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, award-winning children's book author Gwenyth Swain brings to life a family's struggle to become free. Beginning with Dred's childhood on a Virginia plantation and later travel with his masters to Alabama, Missouri, Illinois, and the territory that would become Minnesota, this "family biography" vividly depicts slave life in the early and mid-nineteenth century. At Fort Snelling, near St. Paul, Dred met and married Harriet, and together they traveled with their master to Florida and then Missouri, finally settling in St. Louis, where the Scotts were hired out for wages. There they began marshalling evidence to be used in their freedom suit, first submitted in 1846. Their case moved through local and state courts, finally reaching the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857. But the Court's decision did not grant them the freedom they craved. Instead, it brought northern and southern states one step closer to the Civil War. How did one family's dream of freedom become a cause of the Civil War? And how did that family finally leave behind the bonds of slavery? In Dred and Harriet Scott: A Family's Struggle for Freedom, Swain looks at the Dred Scott Decision in a new and remarkably personal way. By following the story of the Scotts and their children, Swain crafts a unique biography of the people behind the famous court case. In the process, she makes the family's journey through the court system and the ultimate decision of the Supreme Court understandable for readers of all ages. She also explores the power of family ties and the challenges Dred and Harriet faced as they sought to see their children live free.
Author: Thomas G. Webb
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHans Detweiler arrived in America prior to 1724. He was living in Bebbers Twp. (later known as Skippack/Perkiomen Twp.), Pa. when he purchased land on April 8, 1724. He died abt. 1761. Hans Detweiler is listed among the first settlers of Berks and Mont- gomery Counties, originally Philadelphia County, Pa. He and his wife, Susanna, were most likely Mennonites by religion, and probably lived in Switzerland before coming to America. Joseph Harley Detwiler (1797-1852), son of Jacob and Mary Harley Detweiler, married Catherine Landis (1798-1847). They lived in Montgomery County near Yerkes. Family members live in Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey and else- where.
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 1368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.
Author: Marion J. Kaminkow
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2012-09
Total Pages: 882
ISBN-13: 9780806316673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
Author: Jim Downs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0199911541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the bitterest ironies in American history--that the emancipation of the slaves, seen as one of the great turning points in U.S. history, had devastating consequences for innumerable freed people. Drawing on massive new research into the records of the Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau-a nascent national health system that cared for more than one million freed slaves-he shows how the collapse of the plantation economy released a plague of lethal diseases. With emancipation, African Americans seized the chance to move, migrating as never before. But in their journey to freedom, they also encountered yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, and exposure. To address this crisis, the Medical Division hired more than 120 physicians, establishing some forty underfinanced and understaffed hospitals scattered throughout the South, largely in response to medical emergencies. Downs shows that the goal of the Medical Division was to promote a healthy workforce, an aim which often excluded a wide range of freedpeople, including women, the elderly, the physically disabled, and children. Downs concludes by tracing how the Reconstruction policy was then implemented in the American West, where it was disastrously applied to Native Americans. The widespread medical calamity sparked by emancipation is an overlooked episode of the Civil War and its aftermath, poignantly revealed in Sick from Freedom.
