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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 reunions of linked descendants seem to be happening more and…
Posted in Connecting Across Families, Linked Descendants, News Media, North America, Plantations, Racism, Support & Harmony
Repairing the Breach of Slavery
What Linked Descendants Say About Making Connections Across the Divide Reflections provided by participants of the December 2015 Coming to the Table conference call. Post co-authored by Sharon Morgan, Our Black Ancestry, and Prinny Anderson, Linked Descendants. If you could…
BLEAK HOUSE – LINKED FIRST BY PLACE, THEN BY HEART (3)
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 Bleak House Plantation, and then found a book with the…
Posted in Connecting Across Families, Contemporary (1970- present), Linked Descendants, Plantations, The Journey
Linked Through Stories and History
Today is Giving Tuesday, the day when we turn our focus away from purchasing and toward giving to work that we care about. We hope you will consider a donation to help continue the work of Coming to the Table…
Posted in Ancestry, Connecting Across Families, Enslaved People, Farms, Historic Harms, Labor, Legacies, Linked Descendants, North America, Plantations, Research Adventures, Slaveholders, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Slavery
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 linked by virtue of time, place or genetics. Finding a…
Posted in "Nursing" & Parenting, Cities, Civil Rights/Black Power (1955- 1968), Connecting Across Families, Contemporary (1970- present), Discovery & Personal Reactions, General, Historic Harms, Intimacy & Family Life, Jim Crow Segregation (1890- 1955), Labor, Linked Descendants, North America, Power, Racism, Slavery, Towns
When Places Wrap Us Together
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 of a school bus to mount the hill in the…
Posted in Connecting Across Families, Discovery & Personal Reactions, Enslaved People, Farms, General, Labor, Legacies, Linked Descendants, North America, Plantations, Slaveholders, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Slavery
BLACK RUG/WHITE RUG; A DIALOGUE AMONG THREE LINKED ANCESTORS
By Joyceann Gray, Sarah Brown and Monique Hopkins Joyceann Gray, Monique Crippen-Hopkins and Sarah Brown are “linked through slavery”. Joyceann and Monique’s ancestors were enslaved by Sarah’s ancestors, the Washington family. When Sarah published her most recent post, about her…
Posted in Ancestry, Beyond Work, Connecting Across Families, Cooperation: Assistance, Cooperation: Assistance, Support & Harmony, Discovery & Personal Reactions, Historic Harms, Legacies, Linked Descendants, Racism, The Journey
Redrawing A Community – A Washington Descendant’s Journey, Part Two
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 stories and your support. Part One: https://linkedthroughslavery.com/2015/02/01/redrawing-a-community-a-washington-descendants-journey/ PART TWO – “PEOPLE…
Posted in Ancestry, Arts & Community Culture, Colonial (Before 1770s), Connecting Across Families, Discovery & Personal Reactions, Enslaved People, Historic Harms, Labor, Legacies, Linked Descendants, Plantations, Racism, Research Adventures, Slaveholders, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Status, Support & Harmony, The Journey
There is a Little Bit of Me in a Little Bit of You — A Black Woman Explains to a White Man . . . . “We Are Kin by Blood and Slavery”
My great grandfather, Jeremiah Turner (1840-1917), was born in slavery. Our family history explained ‘Jery’ was the slave son of Squire Turner (1793-1871), of Richmond, Kentucky. Jeremiah Turner was assuredly Squire Turner’s property when, in 1864, he made a bid for…
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