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ToolsFraser, Rebecca J. (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
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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, also challenging white prejudices concerning family life of the formerly enslaved. 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 |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | african methodist episcopal church,american slavery,black print culture,frances e. w. harper,julia c. collins,the christian recorder,domestic slave trade,sources of enslaved experience,anthropology,arts and humanities (miscellaneous),social sciences (miscellaneous) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3314 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2024 18:30 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2024 17:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96086 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/03631990241273174 |
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