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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beck, Jane C., 1941- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Series:Folklore studies in a multicultural world.
Subjects:
Turner, Daisy > Family.
Turner family.
African American families > Biography.
African American families > Virginia.
African American families > Vermont.
African Americans > Social conditions > 19th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The Turner narrative and memory
  • Meeting Daisy
  • African roots
  • Jack Gouldin and Robert Berkeley
  • Plantation life
  • Civil War
  • Postwar
  • Vermont
  • Journey's end
  • Daisy's last years
  • Appendix. turner family genealogical chart.