Genealogy Adventures

From 1873 to 1877, USC had some of the most notable African Americans as students. Three years after it reopened, it returned to being an all-white institution. This changed in 1963 when Dr. Henri Treadwell became one of three African Americans to enroll at USC. In this episode, Dr. Treadwell talks us through that historic journey as part of our Heroes of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement series during Black History Month.Dr. Treadwell is Founding Director of Community Voices: HealthCare for the Underserved and is Research Professor, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine. Prior to joining the Morehouse School of Medicine, she served for 17 years as Program Director, Health at the Kellogg Foundation and was responsible for grantmaking in the United States, Central and Latin America, southern Africa and China.Dr. Treadwell was the first African American to integrate and graduate from the University of South Carolina since Reconstruction following a successful lawsuit in l963 - and was the first African American woman to graduate from USC in its history. She has received numerous honors and awards including the “Order of the Palmetto” the State of South Carolina’s highest civilian award from Governor Nikki Haley (2014) for her work in social and health justice.

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In this episode, we talk about Fanny Kemble's book "Journal of a Residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839" which was published after her death in 1863.Brian opened the show with some new research resources discoveries he's made for Alabama and Mississippi records on FamilySearch. And he also shared a tip for identifying enslavers in communities where slaveholders were largely absent (as in absentee enslavers) such as the Gullah corridor from South Carolina to Florida. You won't want to miss these tips!Originally published in 1863 – and out-of-print and unavailable for almost a century- Frances Anne Kemble’s Journal has long been recognized by historians as unique in the literature of American slavery and invaluable for obtaining a clear view of the “peculiar institution” and of life in the antebellum South.Brian spoke about how this book was - and is - invaluable to his Weeping Time slave sale research (1859). And it is important for the work he and others are doing researching the enslaved people held by Capt. John Bull, Col. Thomas Middleton, and Maj. Pierce Butler in SC.Donya and Brian read from examples of the book that illustrate how social issues for Black Americans remain largely unchanged since Fanny Kemble's accounts were written in 1838-9.And they talk about the dangers of those who would like to see books like this in the U.S. removed from public access, or destroyed, to better enable a white-washing of the lived Black experience throughout American history.Fanny Kemble was one of the leading lights of the English stage in the nineteenth century. During a tour of America in the 1830s, she met and married a wealthy Philadelphian, Pierce Butler, part of whose fortune derived from his family’s vast cotton and rice plantation on the Sea Islands of Georgia and formerly, South Carolina. After their marriage, she spent several months living on the plantation. Profoundly shocked by what she saw, she recorded her observations of plantation life in a series of journal entries written as letters to a friend. She never sent the letters. It wasn’t until the Civil War began and Fanny, divorced from Pierce Butler, was living in England where her letters were published in book format.This is a no-holes-barred kind of book. Fanny did not mince her words or sugar-coat the world she witnessed first-hand.This book provides the modern reader with the historical and biographical background to move freely and with ease in Fanny Kemble’s world.Free download url: https://archive.org/details/journalofresiden00kembuoft?

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In this episode, we spoke with researcher Althea Sumpter, who comes from the Gullah community in South Carolina about some of the basics when it comes to researching Gullah Geechee ancestry.We spend some time discussing Gullah culture and history. We also touch on Gullah African admixtures - something to look out for in your DNA results. We also chat about names in your family tree that might indicate Gulla Geechee ancestry:MALE NAMESAsseyBaliphoBanjoeBeayBeoyBram 'Barbary born'CockcooseCrackCudjoe 'Angola'Cuff 'Coromantee'CuffeeCulley 'Kishee'CuminDagoDembowDibbe 'new ... has his teeth filed'DonasEasomFodee 'Gold Coast'GamoneGunnah 'country born'Homady Hughky 'Coromantee'JobnyKetchMallay Mambee 'Gold Coast'MamenaManso 'Gambia'MarmilloMingoMobeMollockMusco JackOkreePhercoPoutaQuacoeQuammanoQuaowQuash 'Coromantee'QuawRente 'Ebo'SaffranSamboSandico 'new'SangoSaundySawneySerrah 'Mandingo'ShampeeSirrah 'Guiney'SogoStepneyTokey 'Angola'Tomboe 'new'Wabee 'Mandingo'WhanWolly 'Gambia'YankeYankiZickZockyZounFEMALE NAMESAbaAbeyAffeyAguaArrahBanabaBinah 'country born'BodyCambaDyeEleyEmbroFantame FortimerJubaJudaMabiaMamado MawdlongMindaNeaRinoRynahSackSibbyTinahTeinaWindyRESOURCESAlthea Sumpter:http://altheasumpter.com/index.htmlAfrigeneas: http://www.afrigeneas.com Glynn County Genealogy (for Weeping Time research):http://www.glynngen.com/enslavement/butler.htmLowcountry Africana:http://www.lowcountryafricana.comLowcountry Digital Library: http://lowcountrydigital.library.cofc.edu The Weeping Time Descendants:(A closed research group. This is strictly a group for people who are actively researching this community of enslaved people)https://www.facebook.com/groups/460217554789067They Had Names:https://theyhadnames.net

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When Congress ended the United States’ participation in the international slave trade in 1808, enslavers and would-be-enslavers could no longer import additional slaves from Africa or the West Indies. There was only one practical way of increasing the number of enslaved laborers: through "natural increase".By the 1820s, established enslavers and prospective enslavers relocated to places previously unavailable for settlement in large numbers. Places like lands cleared of Native Americans in Georgia. The nascent European and New England textile industries were starting to thrive: an expanding Cotton Kingdom required new laborers. So too did Louisiana's Sugar Empire. These economic developments needed an increased enslaved labor force. Human beings known as breeders, enslaved men and women, were the answer to forestall any potential shortfall in the labor required to feed these burgeoning industries.We are taught almost nothing about the breeding farms whose function was to produce as many slaves as possible for the sale and distribution throughout the South.In this episode, we talk about how to recognize a breeding farm when reviewing Slave Schedules and other slavery-related business records – and how to formulate a research strategy to research the children of breeders.Resources referenced in this episode:"American slavery as it is; testimony of a thousand witnesses": https://archive.org/details/americanslaverya00weld/page/182/mode/2up?q=breeding"A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry in the United States":https://kottke.org/16/02/a-history-of-the-slave-breeding-industry-in-the-united-states?fbclid=IwAR3WsQ0xuuKyKlBGdKUQjJhw0si1V2QJknsAKKXV2YA8mPXrch9P9k7GBcESlave Valuations: https://www.sciway.net/afam/slavery/flesh.html?fbclid=IwAR3U9i4zti2Apfn56XulItcQpVQaA5RnNJbcxYvGhOTyur4rBKy-bA0W80I

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Award-winning author - as well as former journalist & lecturer - Edward Ball joined the show to talk about his compelling book "Slaves in the Family".We spent the hour talking about what brought him to write such an unvarnished and forthright family history book, his family's history as enslavers, and meeting some of the descendants of those his family enslaved. And how he came to meet African American cousins who were not only enslaved by his family - but are cousins via the same family connection. Edward also eloquently spoke about acts of restitution.The conversation also touched on the kind of writing discipline required to compose a non-fiction work of this nature...with some history thrown in for good measure.It was a riveting hour for us. We hope it is riveting viewing for you too.

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