This country has a long history of racism, white supremacy, Jim Crow and discrimination. Violence is at the core of those systems. Without violence, they couldn’t exist. Far from being passive or willing subjects, African and Native peoples and their descendants fought back in myriad ways. That’s why slave rebellions were often dealt with by […]
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Searching For Enslaved Fathers
Giles Holt of Hardin County, Tennessee enslaved my ancestor Malinda Holt. Giles enslaved her and others, including another woman named Judy (or Judah) Holt. I will probably never know whether or not Malinda and Judy were biological sisters (Update, 2017: DNA research suggests they were not). Nevertheless, I track Judy’s children as my relatives. It […]
Cluster Research Finds Likely Father
Cluster research again leads to a research breakthrough. Shown at left is my grandmother, the ever-wonderful Mattie Mae Springer. She was born in Hardin County, TN in 1921. Both of her parents’ roots have been brick walls. Her parents, Walter Springer and Effie Fendricks, were both also born in Tennessee. It is the search for […]