In search of the promised land : a slave family in the Old South

The Resource In search of the promised land : a slave family in the Old South

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In search of the promised land : a slave family in the Old South

Title remainder

a slave family in the Old South

Statement of responsibility

John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger

Language

eng

Summary

Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. This book offers a portrait of her extended family and of the life of slaves before the Civil War. Based on family letters as well as an autobiography by one of her sons, the detective work follows a singular group as they walk the boundary between slave and free, traveling across the country in search of a "promised land" where African Americans would be treated with respect. This small family experienced the full gamut of slavery, witnessing everything from the breakup of slave families, brutal punishment, and runaways, to miscegenation, insurrection panics, and slave patrols. They also illuminate the hidden lives of "virtually free" slaves, who maintained close relationships with whites, maneuvered within the system, and gained a large measure of autonomy. --From publisher description

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

929/.2/08996073

Illustrations

illustrations
maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E444

LC item number

.F825 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

New narratives in American history

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