BlackProGen LIVE! Ep 105: Tracing the Trade: Slavery in Louisiana and Mississippi 

This is so interesting to me, because i'm from TN and my mom's family is from Brownsville, TN. But after doing ancestry, it appears that my grandmother's mother's lines were likely involved in the Gulf Coast trading. My maternal haplogroup is a Senegalese haplogroup and a number of my (4th-distant matches) are from LA/MS and it's one of my communities on Ancestry. I also have Arkansas and Choctaw, AL roots so originally I thought that's where all my matches came from but after an uncle did ancestry the matches are on both sides. But this makes a lot of sense now, although I don't know how to necessarily move forward because idk the connection right now.

I did notice alot if Spanish (particularly conquistador) names when I entered Mississippi from 55 north

I am a native of Mississippi and DNA matches have me deep in the mud as you called it in this video. I have multiple families that have last names that are commonly associated with the Lumbee communities in Southern NC (Pee Dee River area) and Northeast SC but former MS Territory counties are where they all converge.They are also in Southern LA. I am in mirror tree hell.

Also remember there are over 400 Black Madonnas throughout Europe and most of them r in France. Black people were heavily involved in French society. Also the fleur-de-lis = Lily which was something the Ancient Egyptians cherished.

I just got my DNA results back, and I shared dna ancestry with early Virginia African American, southwest Mississippi & Northeast Louisiana African Americans. But my family is from Mississippi and Louisiana. I was born and raised in Chicago.

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Sooooo many French places in the US. The English took over a lot of French colonies and America is one of them.

Is anyone researching Newton county, Mississippi? Or the surrounding counties? I am looking for a research partner (to share ideas with), especially because I noticed that many of the families in that county are connected. Thus far, I have found my ancestors going back to the 1880 census. Though I have found potential relatives in the 1870 census, I have not yet found my ancestors in 1870.

Questions: 1) Are there courses or tutorials you can recommend that teach the most effective and efficient ways to research slave ancestral history? 2) Are there good sources to research Choctaw slaves? [My great grandfather was Choctaw (born 1836 in what became MS ) married my great grandmother a slave from New Orleans (born 1841) in 1865. We have mostly oral history and a little research. We have no info on whether my great grandmother was a slave to Europeans or Choctaw, noting that eastern LA, including N.O. was in the Choctaw nation prior to the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek and Indian Removal Act. ]

Where of the descendants of Isaac Franklin and John Armfield, Austin Wolfolk, and Campbell and Campbell?

18:46 so records from Natchez, Mississippi can be found in Louisiana? I just found out I’m related to abdul rahman ibrahima but I have no connection on how. Just DNA from others

Auctioning off black people seems harsh the way some people describe it but in the FREE North, Black people can be kicked out of their job for whatever reason and all of a sudden become destitute if they don't find another one. Work in the FREE North was definitely not guaranteed. Also putting your CV or going into interviews is sort of like auctioning yourself off.

What part of Africa did most slaves in Mississippi and Louisiana come from?

What about Virginia, and Maryland? Most blacks in Mississippi descend from those places.