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Book

Last seen : the enduring search by formerly enslaved people to find their lost families

Call Number

  • 973.0496 G455 (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2025.

Physical Description

xxv, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery"--

Contents

  • A note on language
  • Introduction
  • Patience and Clara Bashop
  • The children of Hagar Outlaw
  • Both of Tally Miller's children
  • I was the boy
  • The Andersons of Mineola, Texas
  • Looking for Lias
  • Emeline and Julia
  • Henry Saffold's chain of evidence
  • Husbands and wives
  • Diana Johnson's hope
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index.

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