Jaunty: The Law of Pain
From a 1776 deed of gift and Tucker v. Stevens to emancipation and family survival in Alabama. Now with the full research archive: 186 original documents with transcriptions and analysis.
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From the Ledger to the Stars: Hannah Guion
Born into slavery at New Bern about 1831 and appraised at $350 in an 1842 probate inventory, Hannah Guion died in 1899 a property-owning matriarch of two North Carolina counties. A full documentary archive: the 1842 probate, deeds, enslaver files, newspapers, and her own will.
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Fortune Stewart & Rebecca Payne
The recovered story of the Stewart family of Williamsport, West Virginia — from an 1803 will naming Fortune, through mortgages, manumissions, and slave schedules, to freedom, an 1888 probate, and the death certificates that carried the family's memory into the twentieth century.
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The Concatenation: Dave the Potter & His Descendants
The enslaved poet-potter of Edgefield, the five generations descended from him, and the answer to the question everyone asks: how could the family not know until 2016? With every known inscription, the census journey, and seventy pages of the county press.
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Freedmen Discovery Project
A developing pathway for locating Freedmen applications, reconstructing families, and reconnecting descendants.
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