Felicia Furman - BitterSweet

Slave Descendant Unites With Plantation Owner for Heartwarming Dinner 181 Years After Families Lived There

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

Slavery & Its Legacies

Just Like Family

In the blog BitterSweet: Linked Through Slavery, we primarily focus on linked relationships between black and white people connected through US slavery—those descended from enslaved people or slaveholders who are…

Felicia FurmanJune 28, 2015

Linked Descendants Research & Finding Documents

Another “Our Black Ancestry” Miracle!

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

Research & Finding Documents

Linked Through Slavery–The Last Furman Slave Owner

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

Linked Descendants Research & Finding Documents

Linking through the Internet: A Miracle

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

Linked Descendants Research & Finding Documents

The Furman Slave Legacy Continues

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

Healing, Repair & Action Slavery & Its Legacies

Coming to the Table Leads in Push for HR 40 Reparations Study

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

Healing, Repair & Action History, Culture, People, Places & Events Linked Descendants Research & Finding Documents

Looking for Links: First Steps

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

Linked Descendants

Linked to Llewellyn

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