Cross-referencing enslavement documents reconstructs enslaved family and community networks

Evidence

These were needle-in-haystack clues that I was able to find due to all the extraordinary people who wanted to help me prove my kinship. When I shared this paper, which I called the “Little Boy Renty” document, with the lawyers, I noticed that Caesar and Sancho are both mentioned as well. Again, I thought, That’s familiar! Caesar and Sancho both show up in the Taylor slave indexes. They did know one another. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 813