Roots Recovered: Reclaiming Our Names

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Roots Recovered: Reclaiming Our Names


Original Air Date: 2/23/24
“Roots Recovered: Reclaiming Our Names” is a documentary from 13News Now that explores the growing interest African Americans have in discovering their ancestral names. The research is a challenge because the names of enslaved people before 1870 were often not documented.

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  1. This documentary is so great! Thank you for sharing so much information and family stories. Janet and Harold Roach's story is beautifully amazing.

  2. Harper. Africans from Nigeria, Benin, Mali and other places were enslaved and sent to America. Some Africans ran away and lived with the Seminoles and indigenous peoples. An Abolitionist named Robert Goodloe Harper, purchased a number of slaves, freed them. The Africans took on the last name Harper. Some remained in America, others went back to Africa and established Harper, Liberia.

  3. That so called white woman knows your ancestors real story, but her forefathers lied about bc they wanted what Turtle Island Niijis had.

    Only a foolish people would trust their enemies foreign immigrants people that’s new to this land.

    Our people were here long before Columbus arrived here. Asians got here before Afrikanas Dutch Europe’s Peans.

  4. Afrikana Dutch descent Europe’s Peans. Stole our
    IDENTITY
    LAND
    RIGHTS
    CULTURE
    HISTORY
    HERITAGE
    LEGACIES
    PRIVILEGES
    LANGUAGE
    SPIRITUALITY

    WE WEREN’T BROUGHT to our Island colonizers retitled USA.
    Slavery wasn’t as we were told.
    Some of our ancestors weren’t slaves. They worked in servitude.

  5. Beautiful but most of us are not from Africa. Most of us are the offspring of the first inhabitants of Turtle Island now referred to as USA. We’re the indigenous Niijis misclassified as now as the early 1960s as black Americans after the Power Power Movement. And in the early 1980s African Americans

  6. The White's took our name to claim head of that family estate, they may change their spelling. Ex. America black McCray family is huge and larger before British illegal invasion, white conn sendalliars to McMaster.

  7. I am trying to search my family history on my grandmother's side. Their last names are Baker/Perkins of Louisa Virginia. My grandmother's grandmother was named Molly Baker on her father's side. her son was William Carter Perkins. Miracles happen everyday. I am praying for one and I am a miracle.