Any Black Americans that have absolutely NO roots down south?
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I’m from Va and i can confirm through my family tree and genealogy works that a lot of black Virginians was moving to Philly in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Seen family members from multiple lines of my tree make that move.
Counter Racist Male
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There's one line in my family that goes through NYC as far back as I'm aware, but that's not that far(late 1800s). I hit dead ends in the past. I'll look into it again and see if I find anything new
Edit to add: but that's just through one great grandparent. The rest are from the south and the caribbean. My grandfather moved up north during the great migration and met my grandmother in Brooklyn. I'd imagine it would be pretty hard to get this far down the line and have procreated exclusively with the relatively small number of black people who trace back to ships that came straight to northern states
Edit to add: but that's just through one great grandparent. The rest are from the south and the caribbean. My grandfather moved up north during the great migration and met my grandmother in Brooklyn. I'd imagine it would be pretty hard to get this far down the line and have procreated exclusively with the relatively small number of black people who trace back to ships that came straight to northern states
IllmaticDelta
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old thread but:
Yes. they exist in the North East but most are either the roots of various "Black Amerindian" tribes (Shinneck, Pequot, Lenape, Mohegans, etc..) or blended with ADOS from the South who have been migrating North since the 1700s, who also are foundations to the aforementioned tribes.
Yes. they exist in the North East but most are either the roots of various "Black Amerindian" tribes (Shinneck, Pequot, Lenape, Mohegans, etc..) or blended with ADOS from the South who have been migrating North since the 1700s, who also are foundations to the aforementioned tribes.
murksiderock
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Can't be that many, though...
Actually I do. My wife traced my people to Massachusetts, immediately ran to Canada then my moms half went to Chicago, My fathers half settled in St Louis, then after they married they moved here to Houston and had me.
IllmaticDelta
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obviously in raw numbers it was never a comparison
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but if you look in the right places, you'll find them
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African American History: A Past Rooted in the Hudson Valley
Since the days of Henry Hudson, the presence of African culture in upstate New York has had a significant and lasting impact on the region.
hvmag.com
they're often have links to these tribes
see ODB (also of southern ados stock but his Cuffee line is all Northern)
TheKongoEmpire
The First Men
obviously in raw numbers it was never a comparison
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but if you look in the right places, you'll find them
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African American History: A Past Rooted in the Hudson Valley
Since the days of Henry Hudson, the presence of African culture in upstate New York has had a significant and lasting impact on the region.
they're often have links to these tribes
see ODB (also of southern ados stock but his Cuffee line is all Northern)
I want to see the 23andMe.
Yes. Slavery existed in the Northern States too. Massachusetts had America's first slave Statute in 1641. Slaves were also imported directly into New York City. Wall Street started as a slave market. So the answer is yes. There are Black Americans that have no roots in the South.
Sbp
Superstar
Probably not. But I've read that Luther Vandross's family has no connection to the south they were brought over by Dutch settlers and remained in that area.
IllmaticDelta
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IllmaticDelta
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The amount of ADOS in the South with Northern ADOS roots is probably bigger than most people realize because the ends are blended
both of these Northern ADOS-descended
have descendants in the South right now
she descends from Allen
and they from Jones
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--Julian Abele died at home in Philadelphia on April 23, 1950. His descendants have continued to gravitate toward architecture. His son Julian Abele, Jr., and his nephew Julian Abele Cook both became architects. Julian Abele Cook studied architecture at Penn with the Class of 1927; two of his grandchildren have continued the family tradition, Susan Cook as an architectural engineer and Peter Cook as an architect in Washington, D.C. Ironically, it was Susan Cook, while a student at Duke University during the 1986 student protests against apartheid in South Africa, who wrote the letter to the student newspaper which made public Julian Abele’s role in the creation of the Duke campus. His portrait now hangs in one of the buildings he designed, and the Duke University Web site proudly acknowledges his work.---
Julian Francis Abele
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Peter Cook
Peter Cook Joins HGA in Washington, DC - HGA
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Julian A. Cook III | www.law.uga.edu
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getting blitzed.
Shyt, I don’t know of many family members of mine up north. Got a few in Michigan, and quite a few in New York & Maryland, but the majority of us live down here. It was always fun interacting with my fam from Maryland and Michigan at family reunions
IllmaticDelta
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I want to see the 23andMe.
unlike them pretendian Lumbee cats from the South, ODB's people actually show admixture. These people (his relatives) all have the Cuffee surnamehis direct great great grandpa (wickham cufee) is the old man sitting down in this photo
others from the same clan
