On both sides of my family, I find a long list of women who are strong, courageous and deeply spiritual. My on-going quest for more information about my family, and the Ancestors now gone, has provide me with the opportunity to engage my relatives – including my grandmother, mother, aunts and cousins. […]Read Post ›
Written by Karen Georgia A. Thompson New York City has millions of visitors annually. They flock to Times Square and Broadway. They want to see Central Park and watch Broadway shows. They come to the Big Apple to shop in places like Macy’s at Herald Square and Saks Fifth Avenue. They want to see St. […]Read Post ›
by Karen Georgia A. Thompson In the past years, I had many opportunities to visit sites that commemorated the history of Africans brought into the Americas as slaves, shipped cargo during the Transatlantic Salve Trade. There are numerous sites throughout the globe that attest to the atrocities of years of slavery, a testament to the […]Read Post ›
by Karen Georgia A. Thompson My maternal grandparents were both born in the 1890’s, less than about 60 years after slaves were emancipated in the British colonies. Their lives and those of other ancestors came alive as I heard stories and read documents on the internet. History is realized in many ways. There is much […]Read Post ›
Karen Georgia A. Thompson In December, I went home. Home to Jamaica. The land of my birth, the birth place of my ancestors, descendants of those who were deposited as cargo off the slave ships that arrived from the African shores. Those ancestors worked the sugar cane plantations of the British producing sugar and rum […]Read Post ›
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