Maria S. Montgomery & Allison Thomas Maria Montgomery found me on Ancestry.com in 2016. Our family trees overlap because my ancestors enslaved hers. We are “linked descendants”—cousins regardless of whether…
Allison ThomasJanuary 19, 2021
-- Story by Quest Whalen, Class of 2019, Tuskegee University, submitted kindness of Dr. Lisa Bratton, Professor, Tuskegee University Dr. Bratton shared Ms. Whalen’s essay soon after their overnight at…
Prinny AndersonNovember 16, 2016
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,…
Andi Cumbo-FloydJanuary 27, 2016
Part 3 – Connecting with the Descendants of the Bleak House African American Community Part 1 narrated what happened when Alice and Jon Cannon bought Bleak House, the remnant of…
Prinny AndersonDecember 8, 2015
Part 2 – Finding the Descendants of the Bleak House Community Part 1 narrated what happened when Alice and Jon Cannon bought Bleak House, the remnant of Bleak House Plantation,…
Prinny AndersonNovember 24, 2015
Part 1 - Finding the House, Looking for the People At the Telling the History of Slavery conference, the woman I sat next to looked to be about my age,…
Prinny AndersonNovember 17, 2015
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…
Andi Cumbo-FloydMay 13, 2015
Whitney Plantation, the first plantation museum to make the lives of the enslaved community the central focus of the site, to depict the truth of their lives and honor their…
Prinny AndersonApril 15, 2015
Part One of this series is titled "Paper". It explains my family background, and how I was launched on this journey. Many thanks to the members of Bittersweet, for your…
Sarah BrownMarch 18, 2015