Seen/Unseen
Seen/Unseen Seen/Unseen is a vivid portrait of the complex network that created, held, and sustained a community of the enslaved. Fragments of their lives were captured in thousands of letters…
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Seen/Unseen
Seen/Unseen is a vivid portrait of the complex network that created, held, and sustained a community of the enslaved. Fragments of their lives were captured in thousands of letters written between family members, who recorded the external experiences of the enslaved but never fully reckoned with their humanity. The hundreds of men and women kept in bondage by the Cobb-Lamar family, one of the wealthiest and most politically prominent families in antebellum America, labored in households and on plantations that spanned Georgia.
Lawton, Laura E. Drawn together for the first time, these fragments reveal a community that maintained bonds of affection, kinship, and support across vast distances of space, striving to make their experiences in slavery more bearable.Christopher R. Nelson, and Randy L.
Reid have meticulously excavated the vast Cobb Family Papers at the