A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South

by Dianne Swann-Wright

Book Overview

An African American folk saying declares, "Our God can make a way out of no way.... He can do anything but fail." When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the history of her ancestors--African Americans in central Virginia after the Civil War--she had to find that way, just as her people had done in creating a new life after emancipation. In order to tell their story, she could not rely solely on documents from the plantation where...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813921368
• ISBN13: 9780813921365
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher