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Linked Through Slavery–The Last Furman Slave Owner

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Felicia Furman — 54 Comments

This is the final post in my series of three on the connection of my father’s family to slavery —a 110-year legacy— and my search for African American descendants whose ancestors toiled on my family’s plantations in South Carolina. This…

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Linking through the Internet: A Miracle

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Felicia Furman — Leave a comment

My internet connection had been down all day. I was beginning to get very perturbed—for a lot of reasons. One was that author and genealogist Sharon Morgan was going to help me scour the internet to look for possible linked…

The Furman Slave Legacy Continues

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Felicia Furman — 11 Comments

In my previous post about the Furman family’s slave legacy, I wrote about my first ancestor in South Carolina, Wood Furman, and his connection to slavery. In this post, I write about Wood Furman’s son, Richard Furman (my sixth great…