In a few weeks, I'll submit my memoir Finding Josephine to my editor - the most thrilling, rewarding and terrifying work I've ever done in my life. To keep me company during this final stretch and my anxiety at bay, I've been doing a lot of reading including a steady diet of The … [Read more...]
Slavery’s Descendants
Along this journey of digging up my family's history, I met many other descendants of slavery including members of the national organization Coming to the Table. I was honored to be asked to help edit an anthology of some of the members' stories. … [Read more...]
Spiritual Sunday: A visit to the Whitney Plantation
I had a chance to visit the Whitney Plantation museum in Edgard, Louisiana on Sunday, the first in the United States to focus exclusively on slavery. The visit was an emotional 180 after celebrating a very different kind of history the day before - my 30th High School Reunion. … [Read more...]
Follow Friday: Can the 1852 Constitutional Convention of Louisiana help find my Enslaved Family?
In the binders in my office that are full of my family's history, I keep lists of things to follow up on. Recently I checked something off the top of one such follow-up list that might help shed some light on what happened to my great, great-grandmother's enslaved family. The … [Read more...]
Follow Friday: Andrew Jackson Wishes
President Donald Trump's comments earlier this week lauding the seventh president Andrew Jackson reminded me of a document I recently found at the Library of Congress website while trying to track down anything about my great, great grandmother Tempy Burton's family. The … [Read more...]
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