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…
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Brattonsville Experience
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…
No Account For It
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: Alabama, Civil War, Coercion, Concubinage, Cooperation: Assistance, enslaved Africans, Enslaved People, North America, Philosophical Culture, plantations, Punishment & Sale, Sex & Concubinage, Slave Trader, Slaveholders, slaveholding, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Slavery
Posted in Linked Descendants, Slavery & its legacies
Posted in Linked Descendants, Slavery & its legacies
Saving Slave Cemeteries
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, they are particularly vulnerable to destruction.
Tagged with: slave cemeteries, Slaveholding (1780 -1865)
Posted in History & culture: people, places & events, Slavery & its legacies
Posted in History & culture: people, places & events, Slavery & its legacies
Linked in Nashville
A friend of mine recently forwarded me this link to a story about two women who discover they are linked descendants. This story is not unusual to those of us who post on BitterSweet: Linked Through Slavery. If anything, it reminds us…
Linked Through Stories and History
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BLEAK HOUSE – LINKED FIRST BY PLACE, THEN BY HEART (2)
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, 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 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
When Places Wrap Us Together
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…
Redrawing A Community – A Washington Descendant’s Journey, Part Two
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: 23rd Colored Infantry, Arts & Community Culture, Bushrod Corbin Washington, Charles Town WV., Civil War, Claymont, Claymont Court, 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, Thomas Blackburn Washington, West Virginia
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Healing, repair & action, History & culture: people, places & events, Linked Descendants, Slavery & its legacies
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Healing, repair & action, History & culture: people, places & events, Linked Descendants, Slavery & its legacies
