Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga AUTH-12318166 ISBN10: 1733480730

ISBN10: 1733480730

ISBN10: 0071768343

2009 and 2015)

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Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga AUTH-12318166 ISBN10: 1733480730A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her "a well polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved" began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life. In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history.