-- By Trina Michelle Robinson I’ve always been fascinated by migration stories. Hearing the details about why a person left the place of their birth to settle somewhere new always…
BitterSweet EditorsDecember 22, 2020
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
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