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African American Genealogy in Rural Southern Areas

Posted by Fallon Green on May 21, 2012 at 12:47pm

African American Genealogy in Rural Southern Areas

We have now started to book a series of workshops in rural areas in order to do our best to collect and then preserve the remarkable family stories of older African Americans living in the most remote regions of the United States.

African American Genealogy with Fallon Green will kick off this series with its Lowcountry Genealogy Series - with special emphasis on the Gullahs - at the Lobeco Branch Library in Beaufort County, SC. African America

Juneteenth- Ona Judge Staines, A Slave Runs away to New Hampshire

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on June 21, 2010 at 12:05pm

A story to celebrate the 145th Juneteenth

How did a runaway slave from Philadelphia come to New Hampshire? And why was she instantly recognized? Well, she belonged to George Washington, and he had served the last part of his presidency in Philadelphia. Elizabeth, daughter of Senator John Langdon, had seen this slave woman when visiting the First Lady. The Chief Secretary to Washington was Tobias Lear, a Portsmouth native, who also knew the runaway by sight.

Ona Judge Staines was the daughter of a

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