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November 30, 2008 461 0

Slave Girl’s Story Revealed Through Rare Records

Nearly 250 years ago a 10-year-old African girl was kidnapped and transported to South Carolina, where she was renamed Priscilla and sold into slavery. Unlike the...

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November 30, 2008 463 0

Slave Descendants Face Struggles

It’s hard to find ancestors who, in the eyes of the law, were property rather than persons. Descendants of American slaves must be tenacious to overcome the...

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November 23, 2008 494 0

A black and white connection through common ancestry

After years of exchanging e-mails and long-distance phone calls, Norman J. Landerman-Moore and Ann Moore Black met face-to-face for the Western Region African...

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November 6, 2008 475 0

Freedmen’s Plots

In the years of chaos and dislocation after the Civil War, a group of freed slaves clustered along a quiet road near Bethania. They tended garden patches in their...

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November 6, 2008 496 0

Tour unveils freed slave community

In the midst of Stones River National Battlefield lies the remnants of a community. Bricks from homes, broken dishes and pipes lie scattered in wooded areas. No one...

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November 2, 2008 443 0

Even in Ford family, race divides generations

Was the matriarch of a Memphis political dynasty a white woman who married into a black family? Or was she a black woman with a white forefather buried in her...

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November 2, 2008 469 0

Old Photographs of African Americans Unknown

Old Photographs of African Americans is a website dedicated to sharing those unknown family photographs with others, as well as submitters photographs, in hopes to...

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November 2, 2008 439 0

Black Folk and Their Kissing Cousins

Keith Josef Adkins, who has researched his family history for seventeen years, shares his discovery of inbreeding among his early ancestors. He writes: “In my...

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