Join the Friends and historian Judith Giesberg to explore a new
digital resource for researching African American ancestors._Last
Seen: Finding Family after Slavery
[http://informationwanted.org/] _offers researchers a tool for
telling family stories of separation and survival during enslavement,
emancipation, and the Civil War. It offers easy access to digitized
"Information Wanted" advertisements placed in newspapers by former
slaves and United States Colored Troops searching for family members
lost by sale, flight, or enlistment.
The ads mention FAMILY MEMBERS, often by name, but also by physical
description, circumstances of separation, last seen locations, and at
times by the name of a former slave master. The earliest ads appeared
in papers in 1863, and they continued for more than thirty
years. _Last Seen: Finding Family after Slavery_ allows users to
search these ads by proper names, locations, circumstances of
separation, military regiments, and events.
Dr. Giesberg will demo and discuss the _Last Seen_ project in a
conversation moderated by Patricia Williams Lessane, Executive
Director of the Avery Research Center for African American History and
Culture.
This program is proudly co-sponsored by the College of Charleston
Friends of the Library and the Avery Research Center for African
American History and Culture.
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SPEAKER'S BIO: Judith Giesberg is a professor and director of
graduate studies in the department of history at Villanova University.
She is the author of four books on the Civil War era: _Civil War
Sisterhood: The United States Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics
in Transition_ (2000); _"Army at Home": Women and the Civil War on
the Northern Home Front_ (2009); _Keystone State in Crisis:
Pennsylvania in the Civil War_ (2013); and _Emilie Davis's Civil
War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia,
1863–1865_ (2014). She also serves as editor of the _Journal of the
Civil War Era_.
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