Daisy Turner's kin : an African American family saga /
A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her "a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved" began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own long lifetime. I...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
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| Summary: | A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her "a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved" began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own long lifetime. In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began to interview Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. |
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| Physical Description: | 295 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, maps, portraits ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252039232 0252039238 9780252080791 0252080793 |