Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up by Jones Royster, Jacqueline

Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820375151)

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Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up by Jones Royster, Jacqueline

Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up

$119.95
Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up by Jones Royster, Jacqueline

Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up

$119.95
Format: Hardcover
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In Finding Sarah and Mary, Jacqueline Jones Royster combines memoir, family lore, DNA data, local history, and national history to create an ancestral history narrative. Surveying a forty-year journey of discovery, Jones Royster weaves and reweaves data and details corralled from multiple sources and anchors the narrative with two women: Sarah Ashe (c. 1740-1820), a maternal ancestor, and Mary Craddock Wilson (1825-1907), a paternal ancestor. With these two women as anchor points, the volume offers a view of the lives and legacies of ordinary folk in the making and shaping of an American story and demonstrates the necessity of broadening, deepening, and often upending our vision to see how our ancestors lived. Finding Sarah and Mary offers a clearer and more vibrant understanding of what it has meant for people of African descent to live and work in a nation that often ignores them or leaves them out of their own story.

Author: Jacqueline Jones Royster
ISBN-10: 0820375152
ISBN-13: 9780820375151
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2026
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover
By Jacqueline Jones Royster
By Jacqueline Jones Royster
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JACQUELINE JONES ROYSTER is professor emerita at the Ohio State University and Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author and coauthor of several books, including Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women and Making the World a Better Place: African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1900. She is the editor of Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 and Critical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community, and the coeditor of Feminist Rhetorical Studies: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy and Double-Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters. She lives and writes in Atlanta.

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