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A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South (The American South Series)
Dianne Swann-Wright
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Description for A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South (The American South Series)
Paperback. The author of this text set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors - African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War. Using plantation documents and oral histories in the form of stories, anecdotes and sayings, she has created a history of a slave community. Series: American South Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 15 b&w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTG; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286.
An African American folk saying declares, ""Our God can make a way out of no way...He can do anything but fail."" When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors-African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War-she had to find that way, just as her people had done in creating a new life after emancipation. In order to tell their story, she could not rely solely on documents from the plantation where her forebears had lived. Unlike the register of babies born, marriages made, or lives lost that white families' Bibles contained, ledgers recorded ... Read more
An African American folk saying declares, ""Our God can make a way out of no way...He can do anything but fail."" When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors-African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War-she had to find that way, just as her people had done in creating a new life after emancipation. In order to tell their story, she could not rely solely on documents from the plantation where her forebears had lived. Unlike the register of babies born, marriages made, or lives lost that white families' Bibles contained, ledgers recorded ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
American South Series
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813921372
SKU
V9780813921372
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Ref
99-12
About Dianne Swann-Wright
Dianne Swann-Wright is Director of African American and Special Programs and Project Historian for the Getting Word oral history program at Monticello. She has been an educator, historian, and museum consultant on issues of African American history and culture.
Reviews for A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South (The American South Series)
Dianne Swann-Wright has an obvious penchant for storytelling and thus makes the scenes she sets and the sources she employs come fully alive, almost as would scenes and characters in a work of fiction. -Deborah E. McDowell, author of Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin ""Swann-Wright has imaginatively reconstructed both white and black experience in a place geographically tiny yet ... Read more