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
In 2010, an archive of rare documents passed down in my family for over 250 years arrived at my home in Austin. Reading them I came face to face with…
Sarah BrownFebruary 1, 2015
1651 Peter Lely (English artist, 1618-1680) Elizabeth Murray, Lady Tollemache I was never taught that slavery existed in the north. I was taught that it was a southern phenomenon, and…
grant.hayter-menziesNovember 30, 2014
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
Anthony Anaxagorou, a surprisingly erudite, young scholar, 'schools us' in a broader appreciation of what shapes belief structures we circulate blithely as cultural currency. Watch what he has to say on the evolution…
Roger David HardestyOctober 1, 2014
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
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
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