Newspaper Ads Show Freed Slaves’ Desperate Search for Lost Relatives

[Baobab]

http://blogs.voanews.com/all-about-america/2016/04/04/newspaper-ads-show-freed-slaves-desperate-search-for-lost-relatives/


"After emancipation, some African American families that were torn apart by slavery turned to newspaper ads in hopes of finding lost loved ones.

These “information wanted” advertisements primarily appeared in black-oriented newspapers, which sprang up after the end of the U.S. Civil War.

A series of “Lost Friends” ads that appeared in a New Orleans newspaper in the late 1800s into the early 1900s illustrate how desperate friends and relatives searched for loved ones who had been lost to slavery".

[LovePeace]

1. Agreed

You are so right.

[thucythucy]

2. How intensely sad.

Thanks for this post.