{"id":506,"date":"2009-10-20T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2009-10-12T20:18:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T01:18:40","slug":"sources-of-african-american-names-during-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/sources-of-african-american-names-during-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources of African American Names During Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_492\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/scan0055.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-492\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-492\" title=\"Names Among Wessyngton Slaves\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/scan0055-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"Names Among Wessyngton Slaves\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/scan0055-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/scan0055-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/scan0055.jpg 1905w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Names Among Wessyngton Slaves<\/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;\">African Americans got their given or first names from various sources during the slavery.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Some of them used African \u201cday names\u201d such as Cudjo, Mingo, and Cuffee, denoting the day of the week on which they were born.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Others used names from the Bible, classical names, place names, names of plantation owner\u2019s families, famous individuals like the presidents and their own family members.<\/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 document above lists various sources of names of individuals enslaved on Wessyngton Plantation from 1796 to 1865.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Americans got their given or first names from various sources during the slavery.\u00a0 Some of them used African \u201cday names\u201d such as Cudjo, Mingo, and Cuffee, denoting the day of the week on which they were born.\u00a0 Others used names from the Bible, classical names, place names, names of plantation owner\u2019s families, famous individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13,21,20,22],"tags":[10,246,24,232,300,299,298,297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}