The Stemma Report: Recent Episodes
Project McRae
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the 'twenty-odd' enslaved Africans arriving to Virginia on a pirate ship in 1619, The Stemma Report presents Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories, a collection of audio recordings by former enslaved African-Americans. (The audio recordings exist in the Library of Congress) The recordings took place between 1932 and 1975. Out of hundreds of interviews, three were selected for The Stemma Report.
Episode Ten is an interview with Joe McDonald; Livingston, Alabama, 1940.
Website: The Stemma Report
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the 'twenty-odd' enslaved Africans arriving to Virginia on a pirate ship in 1619, The Stemma Report presents Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories, a collection of audio recordings by former enslaved African-Americans. (The audio recordings exist in the Library of Congress) The recordings took place between 1932 and 1975. Out of hundreds of interviews, three were selected for The Stemma Report.
Episode Nine is an interview with Irene Williams; Rome Mississippi, 1940.
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the 'twenty-odd' enslaved Africans arriving to Virginia on a pirate ship in 1619, The Stemma Report presents Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories, a collection of audio recordings by former enslaved African-Americans. (The audio recordings exist in the Library of Congress) The recordings took place between 1932 and 1975. Out of hundreds of interviews, three were selected for The Stemma Report.
Episode Eight is an interview with Uncle Bob Ledbetter; Oil City, Louisiana, 1940.
This episode is part of the ongoing series: Why So Few African-Americans Own Land
Whitecaps were the remnants of the Klan from Reconstruction. They forced African-Americans from their jobs and lands which helped contribute to the giant land loss of former slaves and African-Americans during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The true account of 1921, in southwest Georgia, a little girl is found dead. An African-American is accused of the crime. What transpires next is five nights of lawlessness, A sheriff plays a cat & mouse game with a mob of over 1,000 people, African-Americans in the town are terrorized, a man is given a trial within five days of the crime, and a savage mob's ways become medieval.
In 1927, floggings of African Americans in Georgia were so prevalent that the Catholic church printed an op-ed plea in their newspaper, The Bulletin, in Augusta, GA, for the hooded gangs of the KKK to stop flogging & beating African-Americans in the dead of night (hear the op-ed, as printed in 1927).
In 1890, former slave and Georgia Senate nominee, Frank Divers writes an op-ed to the Atlanta Constitution to share his grievances about the Republican Party.
An 1884 newspaper publishes a seemingly thoughtful, anonymous letter that quickly descends into ignorance that describes the life and times of the late 19th century in south Georgia.
How to overcome the '1870 Brick Wall' while researching your African-American slave ancestors.
In Episode Two:
- Elementary students are put in a mock, slave auction
- A pastor finds out he has royal African ties through DNA
Genealogy tip on how to locate elusive marriage records that may be one or two counties over from permanent residence.
In this episode:
- The Mormon LDS donate $2M to a new Black History museum
- Filmmaker Michael Moore finds out his ancestors were Scottish slaves
- Colleges in GA digitizing slave records
- Who controls dead people's DNA?
- Middle school draws scrutiny for asking students to pretend they are slave owners