[Durham INC] Durham County Library Hosts a Reading on African Americans' Search for Missing Family Members after Emancipation

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Gina Rozier
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Date: May 9, 2012                                                                                                    CONTACT: Gina Rozier
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                             919-560-0151 or grozier at durhamcountync.gov<mailto:grozier at durhamcountync.gov>
Durham County Library Hosts a Reading on African Americans' Search for Missing Family Members after Emancipation
Program:        Meet the Author: Dr. Heather Andrea Williams
Date:               Monday, May 14
Time:               7 p.m.
Location:        Main Library
                        300 N. Roxboro St.
Cost:                Free and open to the public

About:     Durham County Library hosts Dr. Heather Andrea Williams, Associate Professor of History at UNC Chapel Hill, for a reading and discussion of her new book, Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery.

After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from loved ones. Williams explores these heartbreaking stories and the long, usually unsuccessful, journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of enslaved and freed persons as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing, frustration and hope in the history of American slavery. Acts and sentiments of sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families are also explored. Williams concludes by portraying how searches for relatives in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African-American culture via ongoing searches for family history and connection across generations.

The discussion will take place on Monday, May 14 at 7 p.m. at the Main Library, 300 N Roxboro St.  For more information on this program, call Joanne Abel at 919-560-0268. This program is made possible by funding from Durham Library Foundation.

Durham County Library provides the entire community with books, services and other resources that inform, inspire learning, cultivate understanding and excite the imagination. For more information, visit your local library or visit us online at www.durhamcountylibrary.org<http://www.durhamcountylibrary.org>.
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