{"id":516,"date":"2009-10-26T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2009-10-13T20:28:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T01:28:41","slug":"slave-owners-family-bible-documents-slave-births-during-the-1700s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/slave-owners-family-bible-documents-slave-births-during-the-1700s\/","title":{"rendered":"Slave Owner&#8217;s Family Bible Documents Slave Births During the 1700s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_493\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/scan0007.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-493\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-493\" title=\"Blow Family Bible\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/scan0007-173x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blow Family Bible\" width=\"173\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blow Family Bible<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">Slave owners kept detailed records of their slaves\u2019 births, and deaths, and purchases; although many of them have not survived.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They often recorded these events in their family bibles along with information on their own families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">The 1715 Blow family bible records the births of slaves owned by the Blows of Sussex, and Southampton counties in Virginia.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Nineteen births of four mothers are recorded from 1737 to 1763 spanning three generations.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>This is a goldmine of information for African American research.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Descendants of these slaves can be found searching other records in the Blow Family Papers in the Swem Library in Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slave owners kept detailed records of their slaves\u2019 births, and deaths, and purchases; although many of them have not survived.\u00a0 They often recorded these events in their family bibles along with information on their own families. The 1715 Blow family bible records the births of slaves owned by the Blows of Sussex, and Southampton counties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[10,246,320,254,308,307,44,91,572,318,312,45,310,311,319,321,297,315,39,123,313,317,309,228,316,314],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}