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In Search Of The Promised Land: A Slave Family In The Old South (New Narratives in American History)
In Search Of The Promised Land A Slave Family In The Old South - New Narratives in American History
Author: John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger
The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier family and of the life of slaves before the Ci...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195160871
ISBN-10: 0195160878
Publication Date: 7/15/2005
Pages: 286
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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I had no idea this was a real family. It makes it that much more interesting. I have found some of the statements don't jive with what I have learned in the past.


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