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The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
  • Judith Giesberg
2025
Simon & Schuster

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A family of formerly enslaved people outside their house in Fredericksburg, Virginia, circa 1862–1865.
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The Missing Persons of Reconstruction

Enslaved families were regularly separated​. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited​ with their loved ones.
by Joshua D. Rothman via The New Republic on February 26, 2025
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