In Search of the Promised Land : a Slave Family in the Old South.

In Search of the Promised Land : a Slave Family in the Old South.

Based on family letters and other first-hand evidence, this remarkable piece of detective work follows a remarkable Black family as its members walk the boundary between slave and free, traveling across the country in search of a ""promised land"" where African Americans would be...

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Main Author: Franklin, John Hope
Other Authors: Schweninger, Loren
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005
Series:New Narratives in American History Ser.
Subjects:
Thomas, Sally, > 1787-1850.
Thomas, Sally, > 1787-1850 > Family.
Thomas family.
Rapier family.
Enslaved persons > Tennessee > Nashville > Biography.
African Americans > Tennessee > Nashville > Biography.
African American families > Southern States > Case studies.
Slavery > Southern States > Case studies.
Nashville (Tenn.) > Biography.
Nashville (Tenn.) > Race relations.
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