My Confederate kinfolk
Subtitle: a twenty-first century freedwoman confronts her roots
By: Thulani Davis.
Publisher: Basic Civitas
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780465015559
Subjects: Davis, Thulani -- Family; Campbell family; Davis family; African American families; African Americans -- Genealogy; African Americans -- Biography; Silver Creek (Miss.) -- Biography; Yazoo County (Miss.) -- Biography
Genres: Genealogy.; Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Twenty-first century freedwoman : fitting two families into history; title: Silver Creek, Mississippi, ca. 1875 : Chloe Tarrant Curry comes to work at the Campbell Plantation; title: Clay pots and a tiger's tooth (1850-1861) : where Chloe came from; title: Horses at the door (1852-1861) : where Will came from; title: Behind Confederate lines (1861-1863) : the scattered Campbells go to war; title: War from on the road (1863-1865) : fighting emancipation, black soldiers, and personal loss; title: "They still shoot Negroes" (1865-1868) : in Alabama and Mississippi after the war; title: Silver Creek (1868-1878) : Chloe leaves terror in Alabama for Mississippi; title: Colonel Campbell's constituents : the heroes and villains of a violent election; title: High water (1880-1932) : Chloe and Will and life in Yazoo; title: Epilogue