SOURCE: Confederates in My Closet
12/6/2020
tags: slavery, racism, genealogy
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12/6/2020
Two Women Tackle Their Shared History
Historians in the Newstags: slavery, racism, genealogy
My great-great-grandfather. A.J. Pickett was a slaveholder. Karen Orozco Gutierrez’s great-grandfather Milton Howard was one of the people he enslaved. Five generations later we met in Montgomery, Alabama, to explore our shared past. Last month we connected remotely on a webinar sponsored by the Shelter Island Library to talk about what we found.
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