Jim Crow Segregation (1890- 1955)

History, Culture, People, Places & Events

Uncovering New Bern’s Coup of 1898

Editor Update, June 2025: Lee spoke to the Linked Descendants group about the New Bern Coup of 1898 -- please watch the video for more information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tkp8ubzT8a7jg7HJ-HPBPkhXnhXtpbLo/view?usp=sharing Editor Update, August 2023:…

Lee GuionJune 30, 2023

History, Culture, People, Places & Events

The Gwynn’s Island Project Reconnects the Descendants of Black Island Families to their Roots

Maria S. Montgomery & Allison Thomas Maria Montgomery found me on Ancestry.com in 2016. Our family trees overlap because my ancestors enslaved hers. We are “linked descendants”—cousins regardless of whether…

Allison ThomasJanuary 19, 2021

Slavery & Its Legacies

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…

Felicia FurmanJune 28, 2015

Research & Finding Documents

Up in Smoke: Slavery Researchers Decry Burning of Historical Records

- by Pam Smith 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…

BitterSweet EditorsJanuary 12, 2014