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, and then found a book with the names of its…
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BLEAK HOUSE – LINKED FIRST BY PLACE, THEN BY HEART (2)
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Posted in Linked Descendants
Posted in Linked Descendants
BLEAK HOUSE – LINKED FIRST BY PLACE, THEN BY HEART (1)
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, and like most of the attendees, not someone I knew.…
Tagged with: "Side" & Linked Families, Bleak House Plantation, Dr. James B. Rogers, Enslaved People, Free People of Color, plantations, Slaveholders, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), William Michie
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, History & culture: people, places & events, Linked Descendants
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, History & culture: people, places & events, Linked Descendants
Up in Smoke: Slavery Researchers Decry Burning of Historical Records
New Post Posted on January 10, 2014 by psmith30 (Post first written on January 4, 2014) I am fighting back tears and my stomach is in knots. Most people probably wouldn’t have a physical reaction like this upon learning that 100…
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Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Slavery & its legacies
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Slavery & its legacies
