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By Heather Andrea Williams

After the Civil warfare, African american citizens positioned poignant "information sought after" ads in newspapers, looking for lacking kinfolk. encouraged by means of the ability of those advertisements, Heather Andrea Williams makes use of slave narratives, letters, interviews, public files, and diaries to steer readers again to devastating moments of family members separation in the course of slavery while humans have been offered clear of mom and dad, siblings, spouses, and youngsters. Williams explores the heartbreaking tales of separation and the lengthy, frequently unsuccessful trips towards reunification. interpreting the inner lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they attempted to come back to phrases with nice loss, Williams grounds their grief, worry, anger, longing, frustration, and desire within the background of yank slavery and the family slave exchange.

Williams follows those that have been separated, chronicles their searches, and records the infrequent event of reunion. She additionally explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed via whites approximately sundered black households. Williams exhibits how searches for relations within the post-Civil warfare period proceed to reverberate in African American tradition within the ongoing look for relations background and connection throughout generations.

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