Help me to find my people: the African American search for family lost in slavery

Fine black boy for sale : separation and loss among enslaved children

Let no man put asunder : separation of husbands and wives

They may see their children again : white attitudes toward separation

Blue glass beads tied in a rag of cotton cloth : the search for family during slavery

Information wanted : the search for family after emancipation

Happiness too deep for utterance : reunification of families

Epilogue. Help me to find my people : genealogies of separation.