From South Carolina, my sister sends me this link about descendants of enslaved people and enslavers who come together at Wavering Place Plantation in Hopkins, SC. I am gratified that these…
Felicia FurmanJuly 6, 2016
A couple of weeks ago, Sharon Morgan emailed me to let me know that someone had posted information on her Our Black Ancestry website that linked my slave owning Furman ancestors…
Felicia FurmanFebruary 23, 2015
This is the final post in my series of three on the connection of my father’s family to slavery —a 110-year legacy— and my search for African American descendants whose…
Felicia FurmanOctober 23, 2014
My internet connection had been down all day. I was beginning to get very perturbed—for a lot of reasons. One was that author and genealogist Sharon Morgan was going to…
Felicia FurmanSeptember 8, 2014
In my previous post about the Furman family's slave legacy, I wrote about my first ancestor in South Carolina, Wood Furman, and his connection to slavery. In this post, I…
Felicia FurmanSeptember 8, 2014
I am posting for Pam Smith. She says, "Ahhh the woes of not being a techy in a technological world! A few little glitches prevented me from posting this directly…
Felicia FurmanJune 14, 2014
Introduction This is the first of three posts about my initial efforts to identify linked descendants connected to my slave-owning ancestors on my father’s side of the family in South…
Felicia FurmanApril 25, 2014
This is my first post to BitterSweet: Linked Through Slavery, and I wanted to briefly introduce myself. My name is Felicia Furman. I’m a white, middle-aged media maker from a…
Felicia FurmanDecember 4, 2013