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NPR Interview: Piecing Together Stories Of Families ‘Lost In Slavery’

“What I found was that often they said that, ‘As a young child, I had no idea that I was a slave. I just didn’t know. I was a child playing in the yard, maybe doing some small chores.’

“And then it was at the moment that an owner died or when the enslaved people got word that an owner was deeply in debt, that the people in the slave quarters, in the small slave community on that plantation, began to worry and to cry. …

“The adults were having these conversations about what would happen. Who would be sold? Would a mother be sold with her children? Would the father be sold with them? …  “And so the children began to realize, through this impending separation, that they were slaves and that being a slave meant that you could be sold. … The pathos is, it’s profound. They describe scenes of separation in which a mother just throws herself on the ground. She’s begging an owner or a trader to keep her with her children, or, ‘Just let me keep even one of my children.’ ”