Last Seen

“[A] meticulously excavated tribute to the formerly enslaved mothers, fathers, siblings, and kin who published ‘last seen’ advertisements in search of loved ones stolen from them in bondage…a vital work of recovery.” —Ilyon Woo, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Master, Slave, Husband, Wife Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, “heartbreaking, and essential” (Jill Lepore, author of These Truths ) story of formerly enslaved people who spent years