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Re: Clara Ashe



Russell,

The best-known professional genealogist specializing in African American
genealogy is Tony Burroughs, whose website is www.tonyburroughs.com. You
might wish to contact him and his publications might assist you.

Kathy

Katherine Scott Sturdevant
Senior U.S. History Faculty, Pikes Peak Community College
author, Bringing Your Family History to Life Through Social History
(2000) and
Organizing and Preserving Your Heirloom Documents (2002)


On Tue, 28 May 2002 08:11:46 -0500 Russell Baker
<russell.baker@MAIL.STATE.AR.US> writes:
> Good Morning:
> As you may know I am teaching a preconference workshop at SAA in
> August on
> African American Family History research. While researching the 1850
> free
> black population of Charleston, SC looking for individuals form
> outside of
> SC, I can across the following remarkable woman:
>
> Clara Ashe, age 105, color "black" born Africa. (1850 U. S. Census,
> Charleston, SC p. 306).
>
> This woman was born about 1745, kidnapped from her home and family
> in
> African and sold into slavery in North American perhaps during the
> French
> and Indian War.
>
> I would like to dedicate my lectures at SAA to her memory. Does
> anyone out
> there have any information on Clara Ashe? I do not have easy access
> to
> Charleston, SC records. Can anyone help? I would love to find any of
> her
> descendents!
>
> thanks.
>
> Russell P. Baker, CA
> Arkansas History Commission and State Archives
> One Capitol Mall
> Little Rock, AR 72201
> 501-682-6900
> www.ark-ives.com
> russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us
> <mailto:russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us>
>
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