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Saving Slave Cemeteries

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Andi Cumbo-Floyd — 4 Comments

Cemeteries are protected spaces.  But in order for those spaces to be protected, they have to be identified.  Sadly, for many reasons, many slave cemeteries are not identified, and thus, they are particularly vulnerable to destruction.

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Linked Through Stories and History

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Andi Cumbo-Floyd — 2 Comments

Today is Giving Tuesday, the day when we turn our focus away from purchasing and toward giving to work that we care about. We hope you will consider a donation to help continue the work of Coming to the Table…

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Posted in Ancestry, Connecting Across Families, Enslaved People, Farms, Historic Harms, Labor, Legacies, Linked Descendants, North America, Plantations, Research Adventures, Slaveholders, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Slavery

When Places Wrap Us Together

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Andi Cumbo-Floyd — 2 Comments

As our car turns down the lane, I flash back to Mom in the driver’s seat, the blue Nissan van idling beneath us as we wait for the yellow behemoth of a school bus to mount the hill in the…

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