I’m convinced that slave research and the research of slaveowners is some of the toughest genealogy research the field will ever see. This is a long post, but I hope you’ll read it all. I also recommend reading “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism,” by Edward Baptist. The book […]
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Records of Antebellum Southern Plantatio...
One of the best sources on enslaved families are in the records from antebellum plantations. Often stored in research libraries, historical societies, and state archives, they can be difficult to access. Slaveholding families donated personal papers, letters, account books, and many other records and ephemera. Historians have long relied on these sources to understand “the […]
What You Didn’t Know About Slavery
OK, I confess that blog title is a little sensationalized. Much of this information becomes well-known to researchers of African-American families over the years. Family research turns many of us into walking, talking, beacons of history. It is an endlessly fascinating subject: epic, tragic and but often inspiring. Points to Remember Nevertheless, here are […]
Slavery: A Visual Record
I haven’t been posting because I’ve been enjoying family and friends over the Thanksgiving holiday. That’s at the heart of why we are all genealogists, right? I’m taking a short break to tell you all about a website I discovered. The website is called, “The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A […]