{"id":1978,"date":"2020-02-20T22:25:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?page_id=1978"},"modified":"2020-02-20T22:25:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:25:04","slug":"helping-african-americans-identify-their-enslaved-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/helping-african-americans-identify-their-enslaved-ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping African Americans identify their enslaved ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"
For hundreds of years, slavery stole countless things from African Americans. That includes the paper trails that most Americans take for granted when tracing their family trees.<\/p>\n
Most enslaved people were prohibited from reading, writing, attending school, legally marrying or owning anything. As a result, very few written records of their lives exist for\u00a0genealogy research.<\/p>\n
In Durham County, staff at Stagville State Historic Site are sharing information about the records that do exist.<\/p>\n