For many, the connection to the enslaved is more than history. It’s family - The Washington Post

My dad, who is 94, occupies his days touching up old family photos, doing research on the family tree and otherwise just taking life “one day at a time,” as he likes to say. Not long ago, he discovered that a maternal great-grandfather had come to South Carolina on a slave ship in 1822 and was later sold to a plantation owner in Mississippi. But he could not find where in Africa the man had come from, so he took one of those Ancestry DNA tests.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/for-many-the-connection-to-the-enslaved-is-more-than-history-its-family/2019/08/27/65e3477e-c8ec-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html