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1619 – 400 Years of Inequality

September 16, 2019 By dionneford Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, family history, genealogy, slavery, writing Tagged With: 1619, 400YearsofInequality, Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine

Slavery’s Descendants

December 26, 2018 By dionneford 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, anthology, family history, genealogy, Multiracial families, slavery, Uncategorized, writing Tagged With: Anthology, Rutgers Press, slavery, Slavery's Descendants, writing

Spiritual Sunday: A visit to the Whitney Plantation

July 24, 2017 By dionneford 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, family history, Uncategorized Tagged With: Edgard, John Cummings, Louisiana, sugar cane, Whitney Plantation

Follow Friday: Can the 1852 Constitutional Convention of Louisiana help find my Enslaved Family?

June 16, 2017 By dionneford 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, family history, Uncategorized Tagged With: Attakapas, Constitutional Convention, Dr. Ruffin Gray Stirling, Eliza Burton, F.D. Conrad, genealogy, John Lobdell, Lewis Stirling, Louisiana, Robert C. Hilliard, slavery, St. Mary, Sterling Family, Tempy Burton, Times Picayune, William Taylor Palfrey

Follow Friday: Andrew Jackson Wishes

May 5, 2017 By dionneford Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: African American History, Ancestry, family history, Uncategorized Tagged With: Andrew Jackson, Civil War, Donald Trump, Eliza Burton, Library of Congress, Lost Friends, MD, Robert C. Hilliard, Southwestern Christian Advocate, Tempy Burton

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The search for my family's history began at age twelve when I asked the simple question, "Grandpa, are you white?"

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