As I read through this whole ad of wanted information, about a women who's looking for her daughter that was taken way nineteen years ago, another daughter sold to the same yard and a son sold from the same place in the same year. I decided to pick this add by some simple process of elimination, from which had the most to go off from such as the most description so that I would be able to read more into the ad and have a better understanding, to form a better analysis. This ad comes from Wisconsin which I thought was very strange to begin with, from being spread all around so by picking a random state and seeing what I could find there, I could form a decision on what my main option was. From this ad I thought how many families were separated during this time period, what went through there minds and what thought and emotion were they experiencing.
This ad is dated from June 26th, 1873, and had coverage around five different states, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi. I noticed how throughout the description that each family member, had know when they have been sold.
How long did they wait till they started to post these ads in the paper and the percentages actually found there families or others listed in theses ads.
Hi Omar! I think this was a smart choice of ad, because there is so much information. I find it interesting to see just how much info Nellie Harbold was able to provide. We can also see from her experiences the extent to which families were split and separated, in this case all around the country. Like you, I do wonder how she ended up in Wisconsin. The question about how long they waited is really intriguing. Maybe she waited until she felt she had gathered enough information about each child? Or maybe she finally felt settled enough on her own to try to reach out?