text To walk about in freedom : the long emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
- Summary
- "Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858. Her life story, which she recounted in an oral history decades later, captures the complexity of emancipation. Based on interviews that Joyner and formerly enslaved people had with the ... Read more
- Contents
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Prologue: the interview -- A note on language -- 2/F/M -- Child of no one -- The ebb and flow of freedom -- The pursuit of happiness -- Freedom Hill -- Roots of love -- The house on Second Avenue -- No country for old age -- The book -- Epilogue: Priscilla's garden.
- Format
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- Description
- xxiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company 2022
| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 921 JOYNER, PRISCILLA EMB in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
| Library | Location | Status |
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| TADL-WOOD | 921 JOYNER, PRISCILLA EMB in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 921 JOYNER, PRISCILLA EMB in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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