A review by historyofjess
Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

As you can probably guess by the subject matter, this is an incredibly tense book. The histories of slaves separated from their families is split into three sections: separation, searching and reunification. Unfortunately and expectedly, the "separation" portion makes up the lion's share of the book and they are not easy stories. Still, this is well-told and a book I'm very glad I read. It's heartbreaking, but an important record of the experiences of slaves in the United States and how they bore the brutality of being separated from those they loved.