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Beginning the journey exploring your family history
History is all around us.
Aug 2
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Rodney Sam
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June 2025
The Masses Pt. 2
The first Creoles in Southwest Louisiana
Jun 19
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Rodney Sam
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The Masses Pt. 1
Story of a colonial Louisiana Creole family
Jun 11
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Rodney Sam
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May 2025
When Family Members Vanish: Passing Across the Color Line in American History
Years ago, I received a photograph of Jean-Baptiste Chevis (c1824–1907) through email from one of his descendants whose name escapes me.
May 31
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Her name was Rose
On March 2, 1819, at the slave markets in Baltimore, Maryland, a 20-year old woman named Rose and her 3-year-old daughter boarded the ship “The…
May 29
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Rodney Sam
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May 29
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Rodney Sam
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May 29
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January 2021
Slaveowners of Color
Growing up, I learned about the institution of slavery in the United States and the fact that I, Rodney Sam, was a direct descendant of African captives…
Jan 26, 2021
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September 2020
Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins. A forgotten musical genius.
On July 19th 1908, The “St.
Sep 25, 2020
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July 2020
The specter of European ancestry in the African American past
In the summer of 2001, I traveled to Louisiana with one of my cousins to meet and learn about the history of my maternal grandmother’s family from her…
Jul 11, 2020
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Rodney Sam
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May 2020
Exploring the past of the Donatos
Years ago, I requested the Jean-Baptiste Meullion papers from the Louisiana State Archives in Baton Rouge.
May 30, 2020
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Rodney Sam
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September 2018
Was he REALLY Native American? Race and the origins of Léandre Pitre- A Louisiana Creole
Race is a social construct, a product of a cultural ideology based on how human beings interpret the physical features of others living in hierarchical…
Sep 25, 2018
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Was he REALLY Native American? Race and the origins of Léandre Pitre- A Louisiana Creole
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