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To Walk About In Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner

Author: Carole Emberton.

To Walk About In Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner

Author: Carole Emberton.

$28.95 $6.98
Item #: D40510
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2022
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9781324001829
Born into slavery in 1858 North Carolina, Priscilla Joyner came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her parentage. Drawing from Joyner's oral history for the Federal Writers' Project and the interviews of other formerly enslaved people, Carole Emberton uncovers the stories of Joyner and ... More
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Born into slavery in 1858 North Carolina, Priscilla Joyner came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her parentage. Drawing from Joyner's oral history for the Federal Writers' Project and the interviews of other formerly enslaved people, Carole Emberton uncovers the stories of Joyner and other members of freedom's charter generation, and challenges us to think anew about the consequences of failing to reckon with the afterlife of slavery.

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