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April 30, 2009 351 0

Found – And Lost: 1786 Slaves’ Freedom Site Discovered, Now Doomed by Developer

Black history is again bittersweet in this old Hudson River city. On May 1, 1786, seventy-six years before the Emancipation Proclamation, the very first liberation...

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April 19, 2009 350 0

Some Americans Directly Confronting Legacy of Slavery

Woodstock, Virginia, resident Phoebe Kilby suspected there was a connection between her white family and the black Kilbys who lived in nearby Front Royal. After...

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April 19, 2009 340 0

Forks marks 176th anniversary

April 27 marks the 176th anniversary of Natchez’s ordinance causing enslavement traders to relocate at Forks of the Road. The ordinance made it illegal for...

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April 19, 2009 345 0

History in black and white

Chris Haley has always been interested in genealogy. But at least when it came to his father’s side of the family, he figured things were pretty much covered...

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April 18, 2009 341 0

Genealogists at mercy of information pirates

In a perfect world, everyone would be honest, bad things wouldn’t happen to good people and private genealogy research wouldn’t be spread across the...

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April 6, 2009 364 0

Up Close: Tangled Roots

You hope for a surprise or two when you map your genealogy: an exiled count, perhaps, or a plank-walking pirate. But when journalist David Wilson, 32, began to trace...

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April 4, 2009 353 0

Examining Michelle Obama’s Lowcountry roots

Tiny fingers stitched a quilt Wednesday morning in a Georgetown elementary school up the South Carolina coastline. But they were actually piecing together something...

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April 3, 2009 363 0

LIFE Magazine Presents: Never-Before-Published Photos From Memphis, April 4, 1968

On April 4, 1968, LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky and writer Mike Silva, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot at the...

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April 1, 2009 349 0

Black and white branches of McCain family tree share stories in Flint

It was a powerful image, one that told the centuries-old tale of a family with two races and one name. On a platform at Mott Community College on Tuesday night, two...

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April 1, 2009 354 0

Archaeologist: Graves ‘always significant’

Archaeologist Carter Hudgins was scraping around in the dirt outside Drayton Hall’s old slave cemetery last fall, checking out the ground where they planned to...

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April 1, 2009 356 0

In Newport News, kids learn genealogy through storytelling

Preserving family history can mean more than safeguarding dusty photos and yellowed newspaper clippings. It can also mean holding onto your grandmother’s...

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