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Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed slaves, "Families and Freedom" tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tum

The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history For over seventy years and five generations, the enslaved families of P

An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.

Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Prologue -- 1 Networkers -- 2 Watermen -- 3 Domestics -- 4 Makers -- 5 Railroaders -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgmen

The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the regi