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Prometheus 6   

Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same

July 16, 2003

 

I can relate

We all got them. And it's interesting that this shows up so soon after I posted the pictures of two of my great grandfathers.

But my relating isn't just a matter of it being the same ol' same old for all Black folks. Since I'm not really an anonymous blogger (P6 is a brand name), I invite the curious and/or nosy to google my last name: dunovant. If you want to narrow it down (it was a popular middle name for a while), add "general" or "gen" to the search.

Confederates in My Attic
by Thulani Davis

Some years ago, when my grandmother died at 94, she was writing a novel based on her life. She left only a few pages and an outline, but her life was indeed novel material. The daughter of Chloe Curry, a cook and tenant farmer who had been enslaved in Alabama, and Will Campbell, a white Mississippi Delta cotton farmer, she was born at the end of Reconstruction and was raised by this pair, who stayed together until his death early in the 20th century. Since I started searching for more clues to the lives of my grandmother and her mother for a book two years ago, I have, for the first time, come face to face with my white ancestors.

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