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…
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A blessing of tracing genealogy back to colonial America is that so much of its documentary history has been so richly excerpted in published histories or reproduced in full in a variety of formats that it’s not always necessary to…
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…
Tarzan Carried a Message
On 1 March, performer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte celebrated his 88th birthday. On 8 November last year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Belafonte with its Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award … and honored with an Oscar the man’s long…
Tagged with: Abolitionist, Africa, Ancestors, Arts & Community Culture, Civil Rights/Black Power (1955- 1968), Colonial (Before 1770s), Contemporary (1970- present), Europe, Film, Harry Belafonte, News Media, Not With Silver, racism in media, Rebecca Carroll, Simi Bedford, slaveholding, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Slavery
Posted in Legacies of Slavery, Racism & Injustice
Posted in Legacies of Slavery, Racism & Injustice
Coming to the Table Leads in Push for HR 40 Reparations Study
I am posting for Pam Smith. She says, “Ahhh the woes of not being a techy in a technological world! A few little glitches prevented me from posting this directly to the BitterSweet blog. As an active member of CTTT I…
Tagged with: black history, children, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Coming to the Table, HR 40, Intimacy & Family Life, Jim Crow, North America, poverty, Power, Rep. John Conyers, Reparations, school-to-prison-pipeline, segregation, Slavery
Posted in Healing, Repair & Action, Legacies of Slavery, Racism & Injustice
Posted in Healing, Repair & Action, Legacies of Slavery, Racism & Injustice
Moved to Tears
When I read Gayle Jessup White’s essay in a recent post on “The Root,” I had such strong identification with it that I was moved to tears: Like most African Americans, oral history is my primary source for deep family…
Tagged with: Coming to the Table, families, genealogy, linked descendants, slaveholding, Slavery, Virginia
Posted in Research & Oral History Methods, Slavery
Posted in Research & Oral History Methods, Slavery
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…
Tagged with: Abolitionist, archival records, Civil Rights/Black Power (1955- 1968), Enslaved People, Farms, Franklin County, Free People of Color, Heritage Society of Franklin County, Jim Crow Segregation (1890- 1955), Non-Slaveholding Whites, North Carolina records destroyed, plantations, Power, Reconstruction/”Redemption” (1866- 1890), Slave Trader, Slaveholders, slaveholding, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Slavery, towns
Posted in Documents & Records, Legacies of Slavery, Racism & Injustice
Posted in Documents & Records, Legacies of Slavery, Racism & Injustice
