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To walk about in freedom : the long emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
- Title
- To walk about in freedom : the long emancipation of Priscilla Joyner / Carole Emberton.
- Author
- Emberton, Carole
- Publication
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
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- Description
- xxiv, 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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 Depression-era Federal Writers Project, historian Carole Emberton draws a portrait of the steps they took in order to feel free, something no legal mandate could instill. Joyner's life exemplifies the deeply personal, highly emotional nature of freedom and the decisions people made, from the seemingly mundane to the formidable: what to wear, where to live, what work to do, and who to love. Joyner's story reveals the many paths forged by freedmen and freedwomen to find joy and belonging during Reconstruction, despite the long shadow slavery cast on their lives"--
- Subject
- Joyner, Priscilla, 1858-1944
- Joyner family
- Federal Writers' Project
- African American women > Virginia > Suffolk > Biography
- African American women > North Carolina > Biography
- Racially mixed women > North Carolina > Biography
- Freed persons > North Carolina > Biography
- Freed persons > Southern States > Social conditions
- Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Social aspects > Southern States
- African American women
- Freed persons
- Freed persons > Social conditions
- Racially mixed women
- Nash County (N.C.) > Biography
- Suffolk (Va.) > Biography
- North Carolina
- North Carolina > Nash County
- Southern States
- Virginia > Suffolk
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-236) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-943
- ISBN
- 9781324001829
- 1324001828
- LCCN
- 2021050570
- OCLC
- 1252846262
- Author
- Emberton, Carole, author.
- Title
- To walk about in freedom : the long emancipation of Priscilla Joyner / Carole Emberton.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-236) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-943