Connecticut Families: Bloomfield genealogist shares historical information with Black families
In the 1990s, John Mills of Bloomfield embarked on a quest to find out more about his ancestors. This took him to a Texas ...
A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...