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How to attend The Book of Lost Friends Panel Discussion: “Lost Friends, Lost History”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You may attend by joining us at Westside Regional Library for live viewing or by visiting this link.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to read The Book of Lost Friends<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Request The Book of Lost Friends for checkout<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read or listen on the CloudLibrary app<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read or listen on the Libby\/Overdrive app<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resources from the Historic New Orleans Collection<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Historic New Orleans Collection\u2019s 2015 exhibition, Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade, 1808\u20131865<\/em>, continues online in virtual format. The virtual exhibition retains many resources that explore the Lost Friends’ history depicted in Lisa Wingate\u2019s The Book of Lost Friends<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Search of Freedom and Family<\/a><\/strong> is one of the key components of the Purchased Lives exhibit, exploring the struggles of African Americans after the abolition of slavery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following emancipation, \u201cLost Friends\u201d columns<\/strong> <\/a>proliferated in newspapers across the South as African Americans searched for loved ones lost during slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THNOC\u2019s Lost Friends Database<\/strong> <\/a>provides access to 2,450 advertisements that appeared in the Southwestern Christian Advocate<\/em> newspaper between November 1879 and November 1896. Visit the site to browse these searchable ads by name, location, and year of posting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchased Lives: Torn Apart and Stitched Back Together (lesson plans for grade levels 7-9)<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 The four lessons in this guide complement the Purchased Lives exhibit. In Lesson 3, students read primary and secondary source documents that describe the efforts of freed slaves to find friends and family after the Civil War ended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade (Virtual Field Trip)<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 THNOC education staff takes a look behind the scenes at the Purchased Lives exhibit, then takes a virtual walking tour of sites connected to the domestic slave trade in New Orleans. Lost Friends’ history is discussed starting at minute 18:19 of the video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchased Lives Panel Exhibition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviews<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Conversation with author Lisa Wingate on The Book of Lost Friends<\/a><\/strong> – Author Lisa Wingate joined The Historic New Orleans Collection for an exclusive discussion of The Book of Lost Friends<\/em>. Wingate was joined by Diane Plauch\u00e9\u2014the longtime THNOC volunteer whose work provided the initial spark for the novel\u2014in a Zoom conversation moderated by Jessica Dorman, director of publications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa Wingate: The Book of Lost Friends Interview<\/a><\/strong>, The Book Report Network<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview with THNOC\u2019s Purchased Lives curator Erin Greenwald<\/a><\/strong> about the exhibit and the lost friends’ history, NPR Weekend Edition<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piecing Together Stories of Families Lost in Slavery:<\/strong><\/a> An Interview with\u00a0Help Me to Find My People<\/em>\u00a0author Heather Andrea Willams<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lost Friends Ads Reveal the Heartbreak of Family Separation During Slavery<\/a><\/strong>, THNOC<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Lost Friends<\/strong><\/a>, 64 Parishes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slavery\u2019s \u201cLost Friends\u201d continue to speak. Are we listening?<\/a><\/strong>,<\/a> THNOC<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Videos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Dream Delivered: The Lost Letters of Hawkins Wilson<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 In this documentary, viewers follow the incredible story of an African American family who embarks on a journey of discovery after a lost letter from a formerly enslaved ancestor is unearthed. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emancipation: Through It All, We Made It<\/strong><\/a> – A reenactment written and narrated by Naomi Mitchell Carrier for the Emancipation Park Conservancy, Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Websites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Historic New Orleans Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Book of Lost Friends<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Lisa Wingate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Help Me to Find My People<\/strong><\/a><\/em> by Heather Andrea Williams <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1619 Project<\/em> by Nikole Hannah Jones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How We Got Over: Growing Up in the Segregated South<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, edited by Helen Benjamin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Anne C. Bailey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forty Acres and a Mule: The Freedman\u2019s Bureau and Black Land Ownership<\/em> by Claude F. Oubre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America\u2019s Great Migration<\/strong><\/a><\/em> by Isabel Wilkerson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emancipation\u2019s Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest The Freedman\u2019s Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations<\/em> by Paul Cimbala<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collections & Databases<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Lost Friends Database<\/a><\/strong> provides access to 2,450 advertisements that appeared in the Southwestern Christian Advocate<\/em> newspaper between November 1879 and November 1896. Visit the site to browse these ads, which are searchable by name, location, and year of posting.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery<\/a><\/strong> recovers stories of families separated in the domestic slave trade. Formerly enslaved people placed ads hoping to reconnect with family and loved ones for decades following emancipation. The ads testify to their enduring hope and determination to regain what was taken from them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southwestern Christian Advocate Newspaper<\/strong> <\/a>\u2013 Centenary College of Louisiana holds a digital collection consisting of the Southwestern Advocate<\/em>) newspaper and its successor, the Southwestern Christian Advocate<\/em>. The newspaper\u2019s distribution list contained 500 Black preachers, 800 post offices, and more than 4,000 subscribers throughout Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas, making it a highly effective resource for those seeking their loved ones following the Civil War. Thousands of Lost Friends ads were placed in the Advocate as well as other newspapers across the South. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People Not Property<\/a><\/strong> provides a detailed look at slavery in the North from its beginnings in 1626 to the abolition of slavery in 1865. This visually stunning website presents the history of northern slavery in four chapters centered on slavery\u2019s origins and the lives of the enslaved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Library of Congress<\/a><\/strong> collection Slavery in America<\/em> offers a vast array of primary sources including photographs, manuscript materials, recorded oral histories, and images. Among these digitized resources, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers and Images of African American Slavery and Freedom<\/em>, provide especially useful primary sources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading & Discussion Guides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lost Friends, Lost History<\/strong>, Rapides Public Library<\/em> \u2013 Download the reading and discussion guide created for RPL\u2019s 2022 Rapides Reads book selection, The Book of Lost Friends<\/em> by Lisa Wingate. (downloadable pdf)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/object>Lost-Friends-Lost-History-Reading-Discussion-Guide<\/strong><\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Book Club Discussion Kit<\/a><\/strong>, Penguin Random House Library<\/em> \u2013 The Book of Lost Friends<\/em> discussion kit containing photos and commentary from author Lisa Wingate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relevant Reading Book Guides:\u00a0The Book of Lost Friends<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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