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Author West, Elizabeth J., 1957- author.

Title Finding Francis : one family's journey from slavery to freedom / Elizabeth J West
Published Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 192 pages) : illustrations
Contents Francis in Georgia: kinship and family formation in the Black antebellum South -- Neshoba to Noxubee: pre-Civil War to Reconstruction -- Post-Reconstruction and a new century: anxious and audacious times (1870s-1910) -- Hillman: a man's story bookended by women -- Coda: reflections on methodology
Summary "Finding Francis, finding family, freeing history. Francis is found. Beyond Francis, a family is found-in archival material that barely deigned to notice their existence. This is the story of Francis Sistrunk and her children, from enslavement into forced migration across South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It spans decades before the Civil War and continues into post-emancipation America. A family story full of twists and turns, Finding Francis reclaims and honors those women who played an essential role in the historical survival and triumph of Black people during and after American slavery. Elizabeth West has created a remarkable 'biohistoriography' of everyday Black resistance, grounded in a determination to maintain enduring connections of family, kinship, and community despite the inhumanity and rapacity of slavery. There is inevitable heartbreak in these histories, but there is also an empowering strength and inspiration-the truth of these lives will indeed set us all free"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 15, 2022)
Subject Sistrunk family.
Sistrunk, Francis, approximately 1827-between 1880 and 1900 -- Family
SUBJECT Sistrunk family fast
Subject African American families -- Southern States -- Biography
African American women -- Social conditions -- 19th century
African Americans -- Southern States -- Historiography
HISTORY / African American & Black.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
HISTORY / African American
African American families
African American women -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Historiography
Families
Southern States
Genre/Form Biographies
Family histories
Family histories.
Histoires familiales.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022037206
ISBN 164336359X
9781643363592