Tangled journeys one family's story and the making of American history / Lori D. Ginzberg.
| Author/creator | Ginzberg, Lori D. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024] |
| Description | xv, 266 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | One family's story and the making of American history |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Contents | Making American History -- Stevenses' Journeys -- Conventional Charleston -- "Miss Sarah" -- The Sanderses' Philadelphia -- Battles Big and Small -- Collectives and Individuals -- Roots and Branches. |
| Abstract | "In 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a fifteen-year-old enslaved girl, Sarah Martha Sanders. Before her death in 1850, she bore nine of his children, five of whom reached adulthood. In 1857, this all-too-ordinary story took an extraordinary turn when Cogdell and his enslaved children moved to Philadelphia, where he bought them a house and where they became, virtually overnight, part of the African American middle class. An ambitious historical narrative about the Sanders family, Tangled Journeys tells a multigenerational, multiracial story that is both traumatic and prosaic. At the same time, through what Ginzberg calls 'whispers'--questions that the available evidence cannot answer but that force us to confront what was unseen, unheard, and undocumented--the author invites readers into the process of American history making, drawing back the curtain on the evidence historians encounter and interpret, and examining how this process reshapes our understanding of the past"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024020857 |
| ISBN | 9781469679952 cloth alk. paper |
| ISBN | 9781469679969 paper alk. paper |
| ISBN | epub |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |