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McLeod Plantation is a former slave plantation located on James Island, South Carolina, near the intersection of Folly and Maybank roads at Wappoo Creek, which flows into the Ashley River. [2] The plantation is considered an important Gullah heritage site, preserved in recognition of its cultural and historical significance to African-American ...
Matilda McCrear (c. 1857 – January 13, 1940), born Àbáké, was the last known survivor in the United States of the transatlantic slave trade and the ship Clotilda.She was a Yoruba who was captured and brought to Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama at the age of two with her mother and older sister.
Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family (1993) is a historical novel, later a movie, that brought knowledge of the "children of the plantation" to public attention. Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family (1998), written by a White descendant of slave owners, describes this complex legacy.
A family photo of Myra Mills, the great-great-grandmother of retired Boston University professor Michelle Johnson, who traveled to South Carolina and North Carolina to research her family history.
Researchers estimate there are less than 30 incorporated historic Black towns left in the United States, a fraction of more […] The post Descendants of enslaved people fight to save historic ...
Hogg Hummock is one of just a few communities in the South of people known as Gullah, or Geechee, in The post Descendants of enslaved people could lose inherited Ga. land after zoning change ...
James Howland (1758-1859) was also one of Rhode Island's last legal former slaves, and was enslaved until 1842. [34] [35] D'Wolf and Howland are likely not the last slaves, due to RI's gradual emancipation with several legally slaves still listed in the 1840 census, and likely enslaved until the 1843 RI Constitution banned all slavery. Hannah ...
On Saturday, June 22, 2024, I stood outside of the cemetery gates with Knightdale community members and fellow Black descendants of Midway Plantation for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.