Maureen Corrigan

Giesburg comments on the words in name only that Bashup appended after the name of Dick Christian, the man who owned her children. Against this legal right, Giesburg says, Clara Bashup asserted a moral and emotional one. In comparison, Giesburg unpacks the language of a human interest story aimed at white readers about Bashup's search. That story ran in the New York World newspaper.

There, Patience is described as the missing child of an aged mother, and Dick Christian is a country gentleman. Giesburg says that white papers everywhere were publishing similar stories that threw a thick blanket of nostalgia over the history of slavery.

There, Patience is described as the missing child of an aged mother, and Dick Christian is a country gentleman. Giesburg says that white papers everywhere were publishing similar stories that threw a thick blanket of nostalgia over the history of slavery.

There, Patience is described as the missing child of an aged mother, and Dick Christian is a country gentleman. Giesburg says that white papers everywhere were publishing similar stories that threw a thick blanket of nostalgia over the history of slavery.

Another ad that speaks volumes is one posted in 1879 by Henry Tibbs in the Lost Friends column of a New Orleans paper, The Southwestern Christian Advocate. It opens, Mr. Editor, I desire some information about my mother. Tibbs recalls being put in a jail with other boys prior to being sold away. I cried, he writes.

Another ad that speaks volumes is one posted in 1879 by Henry Tibbs in the Lost Friends column of a New Orleans paper, The Southwestern Christian Advocate. It opens, Mr. Editor, I desire some information about my mother. Tibbs recalls being put in a jail with other boys prior to being sold away. I cried, he writes.

Another ad that speaks volumes is one posted in 1879 by Henry Tibbs in the Lost Friends column of a New Orleans paper, The Southwestern Christian Advocate. It opens, Mr. Editor, I desire some information about my mother. Tibbs recalls being put in a jail with other boys prior to being sold away. I cried, he writes.

Tibbs says he was told that if he would hush, the slave trader would bring my mother there the next morning, which he did. Mother then brought me some cake and candy, and that was the last time I saw her. Throughout Last Seen, Giesburg steps back from these individual ads to give readers the larger historical context that made them necessary.

Tibbs says he was told that if he would hush, the slave trader would bring my mother there the next morning, which he did. Mother then brought me some cake and candy, and that was the last time I saw her. Throughout Last Seen, Giesburg steps back from these individual ads to give readers the larger historical context that made them necessary.

Tibbs says he was told that if he would hush, the slave trader would bring my mother there the next morning, which he did. Mother then brought me some cake and candy, and that was the last time I saw her. Throughout Last Seen, Giesburg steps back from these individual ads to give readers the larger historical context that made them necessary.

For instance, she reminds readers that no federal agency existed to help freed people locate loved ones after the Civil War ended. Instead, there were things like the Grapevine Telegraph, which she describes as And there were the ads, many of which were read aloud in black churches.

For instance, she reminds readers that no federal agency existed to help freed people locate loved ones after the Civil War ended. Instead, there were things like the Grapevine Telegraph, which she describes as And there were the ads, many of which were read aloud in black churches.

For instance, she reminds readers that no federal agency existed to help freed people locate loved ones after the Civil War ended. Instead, there were things like the Grapevine Telegraph, which she describes as And there were the ads, many of which were read aloud in black churches.

Those ads testify to the inner strength of people like Henry Tibbs, who was still placing ads in search of his mother when he was 55 years old.

Those ads testify to the inner strength of people like Henry Tibbs, who was still placing ads in search of his mother when he was 55 years old.

Those ads testify to the inner strength of people like Henry Tibbs, who was still placing ads in search of his mother when he was 55 years old.

To us readers who admired Tony Horowitz's writing infused with his animated and wry first-person voice, his sudden death in 2019 was hard to take in. Horowitz, who was a fit 60-year-old, died of cardiac arrest a few days after his book, Spying on the South, was published.

To us readers who admired Tony Horowitz's writing infused with his animated and wry first-person voice, his sudden death in 2019 was hard to take in. Horowitz, who was a fit 60-year-old, died of cardiac arrest a few days after his book, Spying on the South, was published.

To us readers who admired Tony Horowitz's writing infused with his animated and wry first-person voice, his sudden death in 2019 was hard to take in. Horowitz, who was a fit 60-year-old, died of cardiac arrest a few days after his book, Spying on the South, was published.

Like his 1998 bestseller, Confederates in the Attic, Spying on the South presciently explored the great divide in America between red states and blue. Curiously, for a writer so attuned to boundary lines, Horowitz, who was traveling on book tour, collapsed and died on a street that divides Washington, D.C. and Maryland.