The Stemma Report

Episode Ten | Joe McDonald

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the 'twenty-odd' enslaved Africans arriving to Virginia on a pirate ship in 1619, The Stemma Report presents Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories, a collection of audio recordings by former enslaved African-Americans. (The audio recordings exist in the Library of Congress) The recordings took place between 1932 and 1975. Out of hundreds of interviews, three were selected for The Stemma Report. Episode Ten is an interview with Joe McDonald; Livingston, Alabama, 1940. Website: The Stemma Report

Episode Nine | Irene Williams

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the 'twenty-odd' enslaved Africans arriving to Virginia on a pirate ship in 1619, The Stemma Report presents Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories, a collection of audio recordings by former enslaved African-Americans. (The audio recordings exist in the Library of Congress) The recordings took place between 1932 and 1975. Out of hundreds of interviews, three were selected for The Stemma Report. Episode Nine is an interview with Irene Williams; Rome Mississippi, 1940.

Episode Eight | Uncle Bob Ledbetter

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the 'twenty-odd' enslaved Africans arriving to Virginia on a pirate ship in 1619, The Stemma Report presents Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People Tell Their Stories, a collection of audio recordings by former enslaved African-Americans. (The audio recordings exist in the Library of Congress) The recordings took place between 1932 and 1975. Out of hundreds of interviews, three were selected for The Stemma Report. Episode Eight is an interview with Uncle Bob Ledbetter; Oil City, Louisiana, 1940.

Episode Seven | Whitecaps: Part I

This episode is part of the ongoing series: Why So Few African-Americans Own Land Whitecaps were the remnants of the Klan from Reconstruction. They forced African-Americans from their jobs and lands which helped contribute to the giant land loss of former slaves and African-Americans during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Episode Six | Why Do So Few African-Americans Own Land?

A look into the history of why so few African-Americans in the U.S. own land.