{"product_id":"finding-sarah-and-mary-unraveling-african-american-genealogy-from-the-ground-up-9780820375168","title":"Finding Sarah and Mary: Unraveling African American Genealogy from the Ground Up","description":"In\u003ci\u003e Finding Sarah and Mary\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eFinding Sarah and Mary\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacqueline Jones Royster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820375168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJACQUELINE 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 \u003ci\u003eTraces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMaking the World a Better Place: African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1900\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eFeminist Rhetorical Studies: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDouble-Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eSouthern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCritical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives and writes in Atlanta.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jacqueline Jones Royster \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48449303969949,"sku":"9780820375168","price":35.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_0780bf4f-7e76-4c3f-aead-3c4958c20909.jpg?v=1781631708","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/finding-sarah-and-mary-unraveling-african-american-genealogy-from-the-ground-up-9780820375168","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}