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Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
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Gripping, informative and heart-wrenching, Geisberg gathers intimate accounts, ads and public pleas from formerly enslaved people who were forced apart from their families. Last Seen highlights one of the most horrific — and often overlooked — impacts of slavery, one that still reverberates throughout America today.
“[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published ‘last seen’ advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage…a vital work of recovery.” —Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife
Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, “heartbreaking, and essential” (Jill Lepore, author of These Truths) story of formerly enslaved people who spent y...
Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, “heartbreaking, and essential” (Jill Lepore, author of These Truths) story of formerly enslaved people who spent y...
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