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
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…
Andi Cumbo-FloydDecember 1, 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
BitterSweet: Linked Through Slavery is trying an alternative form of posting. For the first time, we offer a compilation of five people’s responses to a single question. We hope you…
BitterSweet EditorsOctober 22, 2015
The Leffingwell House in Norwich, Connecticut A blessing of tracing genealogy back to colonial America is that so much of its documentary history has been so richly excerpted in published…
grant.hayter-menziesSeptember 9, 2015
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…
Felicia FurmanJune 28, 2015
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