Paying respect to ancestors who wrote about enslavement

A story on NPR’s All Things Considered reports that this weekend, descendants of slave narrative authors gathered at a UB conference, not only to pay respect to their ancestors, but to talk about inventive ways to carry those stories forward, and interviews Kari Winter, professor of transnational studies and the organizer of the event; Regina Mason, the great-great-great granddaughter of William Grimes, who wrote the first fugitive slave narrative published in the U.S.; and Rhonda Brace, a descendant of Jeffrey Brace, who wrote one of the few works written in English with a direct tie to Africa. Stories also appeared on WBFO-FM and the Buffalo News.

Read more:

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/01/453739545/paying-respect-to-ancestors-who-wrote-about-enslavement

http://news.wbfo.org/post/descendants-slaves-find-incredible-stories#stream/0

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/ancestry-of-slavery-creates-bond-20151101