Slaveholder children carried enslaved people across state lines, dispersing Black families.

Evidence

For Rose, like me, this work was deeply personal. She was able to recall plantations, their specific locations, names, and which Taylor family member ran each. My heart skipped a beat when she mentioned that one of Edmund’s sons had traveled with William Taylor to Mississippi—proof of my theory that the slaveholder’s children took members of their family to other parts of the country, breaking up the Black family unit in the process. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 410

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to literature on the domestic slave trade and forced migration that dispersed enslaved families, as in The Namesake’s migration themes or broader American history the reader tracks.