Maybe 🤔 but considering my blood line includes #Cora #Hayden and the hell she went through as well as
I started writing this down back in 2023 but now … I just #astral back and forth between timelines
Dear family from 1863:
I'm one of your great grandchildren writing from The year #2023 Please don't open the smaller enclosures just yet. My light skin may come as a shock. Though
It took 160 years to find you: but it finally happened. You left your story in the names you chose for your children. Putting together that puzzle of history took time. I'm sorry it took so long. My heart cried joy & sorrow... screamed at the records that it can't be true.
This can't be my family. My own grandmother? Why didn't anyone tell my father? But in some ways...his mother did.
She told him that "someone" in the family "back then"... Hoping this finds you in safety now. Either way: 1 know you make it to #freedom in the north. Cause I'm here. To Grandfather M. You were described in newspaper runaway slave records as dark 5 foot 8 & 33 years old. Grandma J: honey light brown 19 years old.
But there is some evidence that the below ⬇️ may be in our kin too so ….
Runaway Negro. MY negro boy #HENKY left my plantation the 30th of January last. He is of a dark com- plexion; 27 years oid; 6 feet 3 or 10 inches high, and will weigh from 180 to 200 pounds. Whea he left my house he had on a white woollen short coat and pantaloons of double and twisted black and white; he carried off two hats, one of white fur half worn, and the other a split black and white. He also carried off a q. -tity of clothing-a fine blue cloth coat, and a pair of corderoy pantalions. I presume that he is making his way to the State of Indiana; and I wili pay a reward of @50 for his delivery to me, or his confinement in any Jail, so that I get him again. WM. RILEY. Randolph co., N. C., Feb. 13, 1835. —p3 NOTICE. FINAKEN uD and committed to Jail, on the 1st 🥇
Anyway, from a long line of #kin
Will post now ….
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