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Title Daisy Turner's kin : an African American family saga / Jane C. Beck.
Author Beck, Jane C., 1941- author.
Publication Info. Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
©2015
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B TURNER    Check Shelves
Description 295 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Folklore studies in a multicultural world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-277) and index.
Contents The Turner narrative and memory -- Meeting Daisy -- African roots -- Jack Gouldin and Robert Berkeley -- Plantation life -- Civil War -- Postwar -- Vermont -- Journey's end -- Daisy's last years -- Appendix. turner family genealogical chart.
Subject Turner, Daisy -- Family.
Turner family.
African American families -- Biography.
African American families -- Virginia.
African American families -- Vermont.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Genre Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Biographies.
ISBN 9780252039232 (hardcover)
0252039238 (hardcover)
9780252080791 (paperback) : $24.95
0252080793 (paperback)