The Antebellum Diaspora Project
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Counting Cousins
Donya Williams is an award-winning genealogist and the author of “What Comes to the Light,” a book that centers on her ancestral family from Edgefield, S.C. Donya’s curiosity about her unusually large family led her to discover her ancestral ties to impor
Phyllis Biffle Elmore
One evening in Livingston, Alabama, young Phyllis hid away and watched as her grandmother Lula Horn engaged an angry mob of hooded Klansmen on horseback who searched the rural community for a black man. Their intent was to harm or possibly kill the man wh
Nkrumah Steward
A simple hashtag on a social media site took Nkrumah Steward on a journey from the Midwest to Hopkins, South Carolina, to a plantation where 4 generations of his great grandmothers were enslaved and eventually emancipated. Already intrigued since childhoo