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Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage Paperback - 2000
by Dorothy Spruill Redford
A moving chronicle of the author's quest to trace the history of her enslaved ancestors and successfully reunite more than 2,000 of their descendants at the Somerset Place plantation, now a historic site in North Carolina. "The best, most beautifully researched, and most thoroughly presented black family history that I know of".QAlex Haley.
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Chronicles the author's ten-year quest to trace the history of her enslaved ancestors and her successful efforts to reunite more than 2,000 of their descendants at Somerset Place, the original plantation, now a historic site in North Carolina.
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- Title Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage
- Author Dorothy Spruill Redford
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
- Date 2000-03-30
- ISBN 9780807848432 / 0807848433
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 7.5 x 0.38 in (23.50 x 19.05 x 0.97 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: North Carolina
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Somerset Place (N.C.), African Americans - North Carolina -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99043644
- Dewey Decimal Code 975.6
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- Black Issues Book Review, 05/01/2005, Page 41
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