A New Museum Specializes in Black Genealogy. Here’s What I Found Out About Myself.

By Jonathan Abrams “Now we’re cooking.” Names whisked by as Brian Sheffey excitedly scrolled through the 1870 U.S. census on a large projector to find what he was looking for: a 13-year-old boy living in Alabama named Daniel, whose family included his father, Chance, his mother, Viney, and four brothers and sisters. Chance farmed. Neither parent, the census noted, could read or write. “He didn’t own his land,” Sheffey said of Chance. “He was more than likely a sharecropper. The chances were high he was living on his last enslaver’s land.” They were new names to me, even though we The post A New Museum Specializes in Black Genealogy. Here’s What I Found Out About Myself. appeared first on HBCU News.