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Author West, Elizabeth J., 1957- author.

Title Finding Francis : one family's journey from slavery to freedom / Elizabeth J West.

Publication Info. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 192 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Francis in Georgia: kinship and family formation in the Black antebellum South -- Neshoba to Noxubee: pre-Civil War to Reconstruction -- Post-Reconstruction and a new century: anxious and audacious times (1870s-1910) -- Hillman: a man's story bookended by women -- Coda: reflections on methodology.
Summary "Finding Francis, finding family, freeing history. Francis is found. Beyond Francis, a family is found-in archival material that barely deigned to notice their existence. This is the story of Francis Sistrunk and her children, from enslavement into forced migration across South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It spans decades before the Civil War and continues into post-emancipation America. A family story full of twists and turns, Finding Francis reclaims and honors those women who played an essential role in the historical survival and triumph of Black people during and after American slavery. Elizabeth West has created a remarkable 'biohistoriography' of everyday Black resistance, grounded in a determination to maintain enduring connections of family, kinship, and community despite the inhumanity and rapacity of slavery. There is inevitable heartbreak in these histories, but there is also an empowering strength and inspiration-the truth of these lives will indeed set us all free"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Sistrunk family.
Sistrunk, Francis, approximately 1827-between 1880 and 1900 -- Family.
Sistrunk family
African American families -- Southern States -- Biography.
African American women -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Southern States -- Historiography.
HISTORY / African American & Black.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
HISTORY / African American
African American families
African American women -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Historiography
Families
Southern States
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Biographies
Family histories
Family histories.
Other Form: Print version: West, Elizabeth J., 1957- Finding Francis Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2022] 9781643363578 (DLC) 2022037205
ISBN 164336359X electronic book
9781643363592 (electronic bk.)
9781643363578 hardcover
9781643363585 paperback