Bound by Record and Memory: The Purrier Family of Vincennes, Indiana:

Bound by Record and Memory: The Purrier Family of Vincennes, Indiana is a historical and genealogical narrative that reconstructs the lives of an African American family whose documented presence in Indiana predates statehood. Grounded in archival research and family memory, the book traces five generations of the Purrier-Silence-Joiner lineage, beginning with Lattie, an enslaved woman in late eighteenth-century Vincennes, and extending into the twentieth century through her descendants. Dr...