CoAAG 1st Edition: Restore My Name ~ Hammond-Davies Slave Bible Records 1830-1865

…the Ancestors cannot seem to escape the auction block even in death.”

These words, written by Alane Roundtree on March 1, regarding slave records contained in a bible belonging to the Hammond-Davies families of Georgia and South Carolina, cut me to my core.

As I read Alane’s email, I came to understand that since 2004, she has been a true Friend of Friends to eight pages of the original bible manuscript containing the birth, death and marriage dates of the men, women and children once enslaved by the Hammond-Davies family.

I also learned that on February 25, at Swann Galleries in New York City, the Hammond-Davies Bible was sold a second time, for the total sum of $5,760.00.

To my knowledge, until Alane and I began our exchange, she was totally unaware of the CoAAG’s existence and its First Edition theme –  Restore My Name ~ Slave Records and Genealogy Research.

As Miriam Kidmiff of Ancestories says, it was a pure psychic roots experience — the Hammond-Davies Ancestors chose for their names to be restored at this very moment.

I pray with the posting of their names these Hammond-Davies Ancestors have reached their journey to freedom. I bid them eternal peace and rest.

The Ancestors are no longer invisible or silent ~ we now know their names, they have been restored.

Luckie.