My father's name
Subtitle: a black Virginia family after the Civil War
By: Lawrence P. Jackson
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780226389493
Subjects: Social conditions; African Americans; Family; Biography
Description: The author, seeking to find his grandfather's old home, follows his family history back to his great great grandfather who was born a slave and died a free man with forty acres.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To Danville; title: "I knew my father"; title: The Dan River "betimes in the morning"; title: Making do; title: Guinea roads; title: To the courthouse in June; title: Land of the Civil War; title: The will; title: The reckoning; title: My inheritance.