I can't wait to call you my wife : African American letters of love, marriage, and family in the Civil War era / Rita Roberts
Antebellum -- "I can ashore you I think highly of freedom and would not exchange it for nothing" -- Civil War -- "My children I have not forgot you and be assured that I will have you if it cost me my life" -- In the aftermath of war -- "Send me some of the children's hair"..
"A collection of letters exchanged between African Americans during the Civil War era"--.
Amidst bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold their families together. This moving book illuminates that struggle through the letters they exchanged. Despite harsh laws against literacy and brutal practices that broke apart black families, people found ways to write to each other against all odds. In these pages, readers will meet parents who are losing hope of ever seeing their children again and a husband who walks fifteen miles to visit his wife, enslaved on a different plantation. The collection also includes tender courtship letters exchanged between Lewis Henry Douglass and Helen Amelia Loguen, both children of noted abolitionists, and letters sent home by the young women who traveled south to teach literacy to escaped slaves. Roberts' expert curation allows readers to see the wider historical context. The transcriptions are accompanied by reproductions of selected original letters and photographs of the letter writers.
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[2022] © 2022 |
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San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books ; 2022 © 2022 |
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Englisch |
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African American letters of love, marriage, and family in the Civil War era |
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Roberts, Rita, 1943- [VerfasserIn] |
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Includes bibliographical references and index Interessenniveau: 01, General/trade: For a non-specialist adult audience. (01) |
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296 Seiten ; Illustrationen |
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