{"product_id":"last-seen","title":"last seen","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eafter emancipation in 1865, thousands of formerly enslaved people did something quietly extraordinary — they took out newspaper ads. \"information wanted\" ads. they described their mothers, their children, their spouses. the last place they were seen. the enslaver who sold them away. the names they might be going by now. pastors read the ads aloud from pulpits for those who couldn't read. people searched for years. decades, even.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ejudith giesberg founded an archive of nearly 5,000 of these letters and advertisements, and last seen brings ten of those stories to life for the first time in narrative form. her research traces the people who placed the ads, the loved ones they were searching for, and what happened in the end — or what didn't. it is a book about the cruelest horror of slavery: the forced separation of families. and it is a book about the stubborn, enduring love that survived it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"basic. ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50789910085879,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1247\/2113\/files\/1760x2572.jpg?v=1779130083","url":"https:\/\/abasicshop.com\/products\/last-seen","provider":"basic. ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}