Enslaved families stayed connected by traveling with their enslavers’ families across the South.

Evidence

I spent hours on the phone with Carey, talking her through the dead ends and helping her put the puzzle pieces together with my oral history. My family traveled with the Taylor children throughout the South, which was how they were able to stay connected and reconnect after slavery ended. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 814

My family traveled with the Taylor children throughout the South, which was how they were able to stay connected and reconnect after slavery ended. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 814

Categorization

• XREF: Links to how enslaved kinship networks survived via mobility patterns — resonates with work on marronage and kinship across plantations.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 814