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The African American family's guide to tracing our roots : healing, understanding & restoring our families

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15055
Author
Barksdale-Hall, Roland C.
Date of Publication
c2005.
Call Number
929.1 B256
Responsibility
by Roland Barksdale-Hall.
ISBN
0974977977 (pbk.)
Author
Barksdale-Hall, Roland C.
Place of Publication
Phoenix
Publisher
Amber Books,
Date of Publication
c2005.
Physical Description
xxii, 236 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-234).
Contents
Precious keepsakes -- Wilson's ashes -- How to begin -- Art of interviewing -- Making a slave -- Tracing slave ancestors -- Looking for freed persons -- African connections -- Health matters -- Healing through storytelling -- Twelve keys to health, wealth, and success -- Restoring the family.
Subjects
African American families.
African Americans
African Americans - Genealogy.
African Americans - Life skills guides.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929.1 B256
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Black family research : records of post-Civil War Federal agencies at the National Archives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14147
Author
United States National Archives and Records Administration.
Date of Publication
2001.
Call Number
016.326 U58
Responsibility
compiled by Reginald Washington.
Author
United States National Archives and Records Administration.
Place of Publication
Washington, DC
Publisher
National Archives and Records Administration ,
Date of Publication
2001.
Physical Description
Reference Information Paper 108.
Subjects
United States. - Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and abandoned lands - History - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.
United States - Commissioners of Claims - History - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.
United States - Freeman's Bank and Trust Company - History - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.
African Americans - United States
African American families.
Freedmen
Registers of births, etc.
Additional Author
Washington, Reginald.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
016.326 U58
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Author
Kalman, Bobbie.
Date of Publication
©2003.
Call Number
973.049 K14
  1 website  
Responsibility
Bobbie Kalman & Amanda Bishop.
ISBN
0778707466
9780778707462
077870792X
9780778707929
0613529081
9780613529082
Author
Kalman, Bobbie.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Crabtree Pub.,
Date of Publication
©2003.
Physical Description
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm.
Series
Colonial people
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Quasheba's family -- Slavery in the colonies -- Slave families -- Marriage and children -- Helping one another -- The lives of slave children -- The education of slaves -- Field hands -- House servants -- Tradespeople -- Culture from Africa -- The cost of freedom.
Summary
Introduces the personal relationships and daily activities that were part of the family life of slaves in colonial America.
Subjects
Slaves - United States - Juvenile literature.
Plantation life - United States - Juvenile literature.
African American families - Juvenile literature.
African Americans - Juvenile literature.
African American families.
African Americans.
Plantation life.
Slaves
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Juvenile literature.
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States.
United States - History - 1600-1775, Colonial period - Juvenile literature.
USHISTORY-SLAVES-JUVLIT.
History.
Juvenile works.
Additional Author
Bishop, Amanda.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.049 K14
Websites
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