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Chargement... In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History)par John Hope Franklin
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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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The family's history has been preserved through letters, personal papers, and the autobiography of Sally's youngest son, James. These family papers, plus additional research in census, property, court, newspaper, and other types of records, allowed the authors to reconstruct this family's history. This is both a strength and a weakness of the book. Sally never learned to read or write, but all of her sons were literate, as were the grandsons we learn of in the book. The family letters and reminiscences allow us to know much more about Sally than could be discovered solely through the public records that remain from the era. What is missing, however, is a woman's perspective, whether Sally's or any other woman's. The letters and autobiography were written by Sally's sons and grandsons, and both of the book's authors are men. This shows in the portions of the book describing Sally's life and thoughts. I learned just enough about Sally to make me regret that there isn't more that can be known about her. ( )