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
A Rainbow Family It’s been 20 years since I found my first “linked descendants.” Coming to the Table was not yet born and I’d never heard that phrase. I didn’t…
Karen BrananMay 3, 2014
A few years back, when I first met some of my African American linked descendants, I was excited and enthusiastic, ready to embrace them warmly. They opened their arms to…
Prinny AndersonApril 29, 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
Eva Robinson Taylor, courtesy Gayle Jessup White When I read Gayle Jessup White's essay in a recent post on "The Root," I had such strong identification with it that I…
Dionne FordFebruary 3, 2014
This post is the first of three pieces on 1) how I discovered slavery in my heritage, specifically focusing on a woman named Amanda owned by my ancestor Thomas Jackson…
E. Ann NeelJanuary 28, 2014
Check out this article in the NYTimes blog "Opinionator" Jan 22 and Tess Taylor's new book. It's totally relevant to us! Click here for article.
E. Ann NeelJanuary 25, 2014
I’ve been avoiding writing for this blog, because I thought I have not been able to find any linked descendants. But thinking about it a few weeks ago, I realized…
Ken CollierJanuary 23, 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