1619 - Twenty Africans: Their Story, and Discovery of Their Black, Red, & White Descendants
One way to fully understand the effect that slavery and its legacy has had, and continues to have, is to look at how it began-similar to when a person trying to understand their ancestry must go back and trace the roots of where their family began. 1619 - Twenty Africans will attempt to do both, tracing the beginning of slavery in America and having a discussion about tracing our ancestry, in the context of author Stephen Hanks' DNA test results. Hanks started out tracing two family names-and ended up examining the lineages of four genetic DNA cousins related to him. What he discovered would completely shake his whole understanding about how…
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- ISBN: 978-1-08-793716-8
- EAN: 9781087937168
- Produktnummer: 35496561
- Verlag: Lightning Source Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 150 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.8 cm 199 g
- Auflage: 2. A.
- Gewicht: 199
Über den Autor
Stephen Hanks is a thirty-year genealogist and specialist in African American genealogy. He is author of the book Akee Tree: A Descendant's Quest for His Slave Ancestors on the Eskridge Plantations. Hanks also conducts a genealogy class for the Multnomah County Library. In 2007 he was a contributor to the PBS special by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, African American Lives, which examined the ancestry of Oprah Winfrey. Hanks was a contributor to the 2017 film Priced Out, an investigative documentary on the gentrification of black neighborhoods in Portland. Hanks lives in Portland, Oregon.
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