Heather Andrea Williams: 3 books
Help Me to Find My People
The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers...
by Heather Andrea Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This Very Short Introduction begins with the Portuguese...
Self-Taught
African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's...