The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925, Volume 10This book provides an exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War. |
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Page 202
... aunt was our mutual friend and made all the arrangements for our meetings . " Separated as a child from her Tennessee parents and badly fed by her owners , an ex - slave had an aunt who would " slip meat skins through the crack to us ...
... aunt was our mutual friend and made all the arrangements for our meetings . " Separated as a child from her Tennessee parents and badly fed by her owners , an ex - slave had an aunt who would " slip meat skins through the crack to us ...
Page 217
... aunts nearby , older kin related to them by blood or marriage . Uncle Tom was not the product of Harriet Beecher Stowe's imagination : every Good Hope child born after 1830 , for example , had at least one real aunt and uncle living ...
... aunts nearby , older kin related to them by blood or marriage . Uncle Tom was not the product of Harriet Beecher Stowe's imagination : every Good Hope child born after 1830 , for example , had at least one real aunt and uncle living ...
Page 222
... ( aunts and uncles ) , and that is why the African children calling their parents ' shipmates " aunt " and " uncle " are so important . It is very improbable that these adults were real kin ; initial enslave- ment shattered consanguinal ...
... ( aunts and uncles ) , and that is why the African children calling their parents ' shipmates " aunt " and " uncle " are so important . It is very improbable that these adults were real kin ; initial enslave- ment shattered consanguinal ...
Contents
Because She Was My Cousin | 45 |
1 ΙΟΙ | 144 |
Aunts and Uncles and SwapDog Kin | 185 |
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