Can any of y'all trace y'all's family back to slavery?

[Mystic]

Didn't find this out until like 2 years ago
Shoutout my cousin Imani in the video
VERY sad shyt when you think about it. Praise God though

 

[ThisIsLife]

Yes, I've been able to go back to the early 1700's with my family. I've been studying my family history for over 15 years.

Some of them were slaves, while others were free (mainly my ancestors from Maryland).

 

[Mystic]

Yes, I've been able to go back to the early 1700's with my family. I've been studying my family history for over 15 years.

Some of them were slaves, while others were free (mainly my ancestors from Maryland).

Damn sad shyt, but I guess the good thing is you know more about your history.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

In jamaica? good luck

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

YEP. CURRENTLY 2 GENERATIONS IN. I'VE BEEN AT THIS FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS. IT GETS HARD ONCE YOU GET INTO THE MID 1800S.

 

[The Pledge]

My cousin traced it back

She’s really into the family tree stuff, it was crazy to see all the sharecropping and shyt.

 

[HarlemHottie]

Yeah, it's not that hard. I did it in hs. The good sis @xoxodede used to help ppl out, though, not sure if she's still around.

 

[ThisIsLife]

Damn sad shyt, but I guess the good thing is you know more about your history.

Yeah, I would just like to know more of their history for those who were enslaved pre mid 1800's. Those names are not easy to research, thus always hitting roadblocks in these cases.

 

[Uachet]

Yes. My family was here before the US was a country, and still a colony of England.

 

[Maximus Rex]

Somewhat, book my Aunt wrote

Amazon Link

 

[thashiek]

Yup , back to the late 1700s on my maternal grandmothers side. Probably the same or further on my maternal grandfather's side, but he drowned before passing the info down.

We even know the white man who raped my great great great......(However many greats?) Grandma and how their offspring (a girl) lived as a white passing field nikka.

Kudos to my elders for keeping thorough records

 

[#BOTHSIDES]

Yes

 

[Yinny]

Yes, we have a family tree. Doing some digging on our family name across a few trees and this matches. He took on the last name of a slaveowner Henderson Judd who freed his slave children and then was killed by the Klan.

GFHC: The Curious Case of Stokes Maddox Judd, Former Slave and Confederate Pensioner

A while ago, I wrote a diary about Henderson Judd of Moore and Chatham Co, NC. He lived on the former border between the two counties along the Cape Fear River. Henderson Judd was a slave owner. ...

www.dailykos.com

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

Yes.

 

[Bunchy Carter]

Yes. I did it back in college for a Genetics project.