"I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife": African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era

Roberts, Rita

ISBN 10: 1797213725 / ISBN 13: 9781797213729

Editore: Chronicle Books (edition ), 2022

With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Codice articolo 1797213725-8-1-29

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull'autore: Rita Roberts is a writer and historian. She is currently retiring from her Professorship of History and Africana Studies at Scripps College, where she holds the Nathan Wright Stephenson Chair in History and Biography.

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Titolo: "I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife": African ...
Casa editrice: Chronicle Books (edition )
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
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