My Father's Name : A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War
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Item type | Current location | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Electronic Book | UT Tyler Online Online | F235 | F235.N4 J33 2012 (Browse shelf) | http://uttyler.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=870840 | Available | EBL870840 |
""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. To Danville""; ""2. “I Knew My Father�""; ""3. The Dan River Betimes in the Morning""; ""4. Make Do""; ""5. The Names of Guinea Roads""; ""6. To the Courthouse in June""; ""7. Land of the Civil War ""; ""8. The Will""; ""9. The Reckoning""; ""10. My Inheritance""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
Armed with only early boyhood memories, Lawrence P. Jackson begins his quest by setting out from his home in Baltimore for Pittsylvania County, Virginia, to try to find his late grandfather's old home by the railroad tracks in Blairs. My Father's Name tells the tale of the ensuing journey, at once a detective story and a moving historical memoir, uncovering the mixture of anguish and fulfillment that accompanies a venture into the ancestral past, specifically one tied to the history of slavery.After asking around in Pittsylvania County and carefully putting the pieces together, Jackson finds h
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