Slave Ownership and Slave Era Families

Seven Proven Strategies for Identifying Slave Ownership and Reconstructing Slave Era Families

Speaker: Janis Minor Forté

YouTube Interview - Janis Minor Forté 

A No Nonsense approach to uncovering pre-emancipation documents that identify the slave holder and connect slave families. Also covered are how to identify slave kin who died before emancipation, understand the conditions of enslavement, Free People of Color, and “Those Who Want To Become A Slave.”

This program is co-sponsored with the Glenview Public Library.  You can attend in person or by Zoom.

by Zoom: Click Here to Register, a Zoom Link will be sent to you.

in Person: Click Here to Register, and go to the Community Room.

Image is in the public domain. slaveryimages.org