Heather Andrea Williams. (2012). Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery. The University of North Carolina Press.

Heather Andrea Williams. 2012. Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery. The University of North Carolina Press.

Heather Andrea Williams, Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery. The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Heather Andrea Williams. Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery. The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

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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.

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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...

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