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Gathering African American Families’ Oral Histories – The Getting Word Project: African American Stories from Monticello – Part One of Three

Posted on March 28, 2017 by prinnyanderson — 2 Comments

So many of us want to know our ancestors’ stories and find out more about where we’ve come from. DNA research has advanced our ability to find and learn about our family members to an extraordinary extent, but family stories…

Tagged with: Bankhead, Beverly Gray, Chilicothe, Dianne Swann-Wright, Enslaved People, Fossett, Getting Word, Hemings, Intimacy & Family Life, Lucia Stanton, Monticello., oral history, plantations, Scott, Slaveholding (1780 -1865)
Posted in Research & Oral History Methods, Slavery

Brattonsville Experience

Posted on November 16, 2016 by prinnyanderson — 2 Comments

Story by Quest Whalen, Class of 2019, Tuskegee University, submitted kindness of Dr. Lisa Bratton, Professor, Tuskegee University Dr. Bratton shared Ms. Whalen’s essay soon after their overnight at Historic Brattonsville on Friday, September 12, and participation in “By the…

Tagged with: Brattonsville. Tuskegee University. Family history. Bratton family., Contemporary (1970- present), Enslaved People, plantations, Slaveholding (1780 -1865)
Posted in Individual, Family & Linked Descendant Stories, Legacies of Slavery, Racism & Injustice, Setting & Place

Slave Descendant Unites With Plantation Owner for Heartwarming Dinner 181 Years After Families Lived There

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Felicia Furman — 5 Comments

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…

Tagged with: linked descendants, News Media, North America, plantations, Support & Harmony, Wavering Place Plantation
Posted in Contact, Connection, Relationship, Individual, Family & Linked Descendant Stories

No Account For It

Posted on June 19, 2016 by Roger David Hardesty — 1 Comment

While drafting the post Half-white Slaves of Aristocratic Masters at my blog, I acknowledged that Edward Ball, in his text, The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South, employs the term ‘concubines’ to describe intimate, long-term…

Tagged with: 1830s-1870s, Alabama, archival records, Civil War, Coercion, Concubinage, Cooperation: Assistance, enslaved Africans, Enslaved People, families, Intimacy & Family Life, North America, Philosophical Culture, plantations, Punishment & Sale, Sex & Concubinage, Slave Trader, Slaveholders, slaveholding, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Slavery, Stories, Support & Harmony
Posted in Individual, Family & Linked Descendant Stories, Slavery

BLEAK HOUSE – LINKED FIRST BY PLACE, THEN BY HEART (3)

Posted on December 8, 2015 by prinnyanderson — 2 Comments

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…

Tagged with: Alice Cannon, Bibb family, Bleak House Plantation, Central Virginia History Researchers, Contemporary (1970- present), Earlysville VA, Evans family, Jefferson family, Jim Evans, Joseph Evans, Link Evans, Mariah Evans, plantations, Reed family, Sarah Belle Evans, Whipps family, Woodfolk family
Posted in Contact, Connection, Relationship, Healing, Repair & Action, Research Experiences

Linked Through Stories and History

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Andi Cumbo-Floyd — 2 Comments

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…

Tagged with: Bracketts Farm, Carter, Enslaved People, Farms, Labor, Louisa County Virginia, North America, plantations, Quarles, Slaveholders, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Slavery, Virginia, Watson
Posted in Individual, Family & Linked Descendant Stories, Legacies of Slavery, Racism & Injustice, Setting & Place, Slavery

BLEAK HOUSE – LINKED FIRST BY PLACE, THEN BY HEART (2)

Posted on November 24, 2015 by prinnyanderson — 6 Comments

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…

Tagged with: Ada Cave Tyler, Armistead Woodfolk, Bleak House Plantation, Buxton OH, Calvin Evans, Cloe Evans, Earlysville VA, Elizabeth Evans, Enslaved People, Farms, Free People of Color, Hannah Wood, Harriet Evans, Intimacy & Family Life, James B. Rogers, Jim Evans, John Woodfolk, Longwood Plantation, Marcia Lovett, Margaret Wood Rogers, Mariah Wood, Marinda Evans, Mary Evans Ray, Nathaniel "Link" Evans, Nelson Woodfolk, Perkins Evans, plantations, Reconstruction/”Redemption” (1866- 1890), Ross EVans, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Talcott WV, Thornton Evans, William Bernard Evans, Woodfolk family
Posted in Individual, Family & Linked Descendant Stories

BLEAK HOUSE – LINKED FIRST BY PLACE, THEN BY HEART (1)

Posted on November 17, 2015 by prinnyanderson — 6 Comments

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, Intimacy & Family Life, plantations, Slaveholders, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), William Michie
Posted in Contact, Connection, Relationship, Discovery & Impact, Historic People & Places, Research Experiences, Setting & Place

When Places Wrap Us Together

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Andi Cumbo-Floyd — 2 Comments

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…

Tagged with: Central Virginiia plantation, Coming to the Table, Enslaved People, Farms, geography, Labor, linked descendants, North America, plantations, Slaveholders, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Slavery
Posted in Contact, Connection, Relationship, Setting & Place, Slavery

Redrawing A Community – A Washington Descendant’s Journey, Part Two

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Sarah Brown — 6 Comments

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…

Tagged with: 1830s-1870s, 23rd Colored Infantry, archival records, Arts & Community Culture, Bushrod Corbin Washington, Charles Town WV., Civil War, Claymont, Claymont Court, Colonial (Before 1770s), Dr. Solomon H. Thompson, Enslaved People, Fortune Thompson, George Hatter, George Washington, Haney Richardson, Harper's Ferry, Jasper Thompson, Jefferson County W.V., John Brown, Joyceann Gray, Justice Bushrod Washington, Kansas City, Labor, linked descendants, Monique Crippen-Hopkins, Mount Vernon, plantations, Reuben Hatter, Slaveholders, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Solomon Thompson, Status, Storer College, Support & Harmony, Thomas Blackburn Washington, West Virginia
Posted in Discovery & Impact, Documents & Records, Healing, Repair & Action, Historic People & Places, Individual, Family & Linked Descendant Stories, Legacies of Slavery, Racism & Injustice