Archive for August 2011

2:09:00 PM

I cannot help but comment on the great genealogical value The Slave Dwelling blogs are providing. I can think of no greater way to learn more about the life of a slave ancestor

In 2011 African American History Month Theme

Resources for African American Research

By >Robin R. Foster

8:13:00 AM

Clarendon County, South Carolina African American Genealogy from Robin Foster on Vimeo. Finding Records of Your Ancestors, Part A, African American, 1870 to Present This is the video presentation from last night's meeting

Freedom Maverick Awards

The awards below were inspired by a photograph that I took at The State House in downtown Columbia, South Carolina. There is so much said about the Confederate flag that hangs there, but I never have seen much about the African American Monument that depicts the history of African Americans. Taking down a flag alone does not change a people's vision. Those we acknowledge as being a Freedom Maverick (a word coined by Angela Y.Walton-Raji in podcast #91) will help us have the right perspective.