Elizabeth West Honored by the College Language Association with Annual Book Award for “Finding Francis: One Family’s Journey from Slavery to Freedom”
Elizabeth West Honored by the College Language Association with Annual Book Award for “Finding Francis: One Family’s Journey from Slavery to Freedom”
Dr. Elizabeth West, Professor of English and Africana Studies, has been honored by the College Language Association (CLA) with its annual book award for Finding Francis: One Family’s Journey from Slavery to Freedom.
The CLA is one of the nation’s oldest professional associations of Black scholars, founded in 1937 by Black collegiate scholars of English and world languages.
Dr. West’s book (University of South Carolina Press) tells the story of Francis Sistrunk and her children, from enslavement into force migration across the deep South. Spanning both the antebellum period on through post-emancipation America, it reclaims and honors those women to were essential in the historic survival and triumph of Black people during and after the institution of slavery in the United States.
