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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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
Linked Through Stories and History
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…
End of the list
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…
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 linked by virtue of time, place or genetics. Finding a…
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…
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…
Looking for Links: First Steps
Introduction This is the first of three posts about my initial efforts to identify linked descendants connected to my slave-owning ancestors on my father’s side of the family in South Carolina. These ancestors are Wood Furman (1712 – 1783), Richard…
Tagged with: Coercion, Enslaved People, Furman University, Glasgow, James C. Furman, Jinny, Moll, North America, plantations, Punishment & Sale, Richard Furman, Sirrah, Slave Trader, Slaveholders, Slaveholding (1780 -1865), Slavery, South Carolina, Wood Furman
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Healing, repair & action, History & culture: people, places & events, Linked Descendants
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Healing, repair & action, History & culture: people, places & events, Linked Descendants
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, genealogy, linked descendants, slaveholding, Slavery, Virginia
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Slavery & its legacies
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Slavery & its legacies
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, Civil Rights/Black Power (1955- 1968), Enslaved People, 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
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Slavery & its legacies
Posted in Finding documents & doing research, Slavery & its legacies
