'Last Seen' tells how ads helped formerly enslaved people find family
On The Record · WYPR 88.1FM
February 10, 202526m 19s
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Show Notes
The ads showed up in Black run newspapers for decades after the Civil War — urgent descriptions of loved ones sold away. We talk to history professor Judith Giesberg, who compiled an archive, and now a book: Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families. Giesberg will be speaking at the downtown Pratt Library Mon. Feb. 10 at 7pm.