, the author was formerly owned together with her children, lydia, william, alan, and parker, in woodberry, tennessee. ry, tennessee. she talks about how various family members were sold away. she talks about the sale to mr. stroud of arkansas. and here is the one that will get you. any information will be gratefully received by one whose love for her children survived yearsitter hardships of spent in slavery. this is one of the first ads that we collected, in this effort to try to get all of these in one place and get them accessible to people who are studying this period. what is extraordinary about this is how well she remembers all these details, and how she just fills the ad. andy word has meaning, every detail she includes in the this ad, and the hope that somebody is going to respond to this information-wanted ad. she says, in the ad, that she thiswants any neighborhood pres y, tennessee and hopes that the preachers will read the ad to their congregations, and hopefully more people will be enlisted in her effort to find her family members. and this prose is really vivid. headyptures