“There is No Place Like a Happy Home”: Information Wanted Notices, the Christian Recorder, and the Search for Missing Family Members in Post-Emancipation America

Fraser, Rebecca (2024) “There is No Place Like a Happy Home”: Information Wanted Notices, the Christian Recorder, and the Search for Missing Family Members in Post-Emancipation America. Journal of Family History. ISSN 0363-1990 (In Press)

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Abstract

This article considers the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) newspaper, the Christian Recorder’s publication of the formerly enslaved “Information Wanted” advertisements through the mid-1860s to turn of the century as a means through which the AME promoted the ideal of the “family” as positive models for Blacks themselves, and also challenging white prejudices. Conversely, the formerly enslaved used them as a public forum to narrate, and perhaps begin to make sense of, their own stories of loss and longing and articulating white southern responsibility for the heartache and traumas of slavery that they had caused.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2024 18:30
Last Modified:	31 Jul 2024 18:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96086
DOI:	issn:0363-1990

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