Description
Inspired by two popular television shows - Who Do You Think You Are? and Finding Your Roots, I went on a genealogical journey of my own to either discover or reconnect with my ancestors. Combining my family's photographs, documents, and oral stories with vital records and other information found on Ancestry and 23and Me I was able to build a comprehensive profile on one of my family's earliest documented ancestors, Cherry Gulledge-Foote. This work describes in graphic detail Cherry's life story. The Cedar Chest reconstructs Cherry's entire life from her childhood, adulthood, and final years. The retelling of her life is a no-holds barred look at what it took for Cherry to survive the horrors of slavery and the indignities during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. Whenever appropriate, I paraphrased actual slave narratives, which were compiled in the late 1930s by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project, into the story's dialogue to ensure the story's authenticity. The Cedar Chest presents an unabashedly biased point of view of America's greatest sin against those it enslaved.
“These are the oral stories that were never told."
ASIN: B0DKRF42Z4
VSKU: BVV.B0DKRF42Z4.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Bowers, Subrena Carla
Binding: Paperback
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use
ASIN: B0DKRF42Z4
VSKU: BVV.B0DKRF42Z4.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Bowers, Subrena Carla
Binding: Paperback
Note: Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.
Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use