Category Archives: slavery
"Wench" – Stranger than fiction truth about slavery
Just as I’m finishing up the 700-plus paged tome, The Hemingses of Monticello (only 200 more pages to go!), I’ve found another ancestor-related book to add to my research list. This one is a début novel, Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez … Continue reading
No Place Like Home
My first cousin recently moved a stone’s throw from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, pictured above. As I plan a visit to see her as well as our ancestral home, it made me think how so many of us in my family … Continue reading
Celebrating Kwanzaa (and Shakespeare)
This is the second year in a row that our family is celebrating Kwanzaa. My daughters love taking turns lighting the beautifully carved kinara and drinking from its matching unity cup at the beginning of each of the seven nights … Continue reading
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Winter Solstice – Hope in the Fire
Just in time for winter solstice, the longest night and shortest day of the year, my cousin gave me an invaluable gift. She called with news that she has the pictured decorative glasses that once belonged to our great great … Continue reading
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All Mighty Google
Earlier this week with a few keystrokes of her computer, my cousin Monique found a book about our third great grandfather. She typed in the words “Stuart” (granddaddy’s last name), “pecan” (one of the things he grew on his farm … Continue reading
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