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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Linked Through Slavery–The Last Furman Slave Owner
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Posted in Contact, Connection, Relationship, Historic People & Places, Individual, Family & Linked Descendant Stories, Legacies of Slavery, Racism & Injustice, Research & Oral History Methods
Posted in Contact, Connection, Relationship, Historic People & Places, Individual, Family & Linked Descendant Stories, Legacies of Slavery, Racism & Injustice, Research & Oral History Methods
Linking through the Internet: A Miracle
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
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…
Tagged with: Alester G. Furman Jr., Charleston, Denmark Vesey, Exposition of The Views of the Baptists Relative To The Coloured Population of the United States In a Communication To The Governor of South Carolina, First Baptist Church, Furman University, James A. Rogers, James C. Furman, paternalism, Prince Taylor, pro-slavery arguments, Richard Furman, Samuel Furman, Sarah Haynsworth, Trina Roach, William Gilmore Simms, Wood Furman
Posted in Individual, Family & Linked Descendant Stories, Research Experiences
Posted in Individual, Family & Linked Descendant Stories, Research Experiences
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