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In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History) (1st Edition) by John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-19-516088-6 / 0195160886 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-516088-8 / 9780195160888 The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier |