User:Sdjo1

Hi My name is Joi. Blessed to Be Here. First I would like to thank people like JFK and MLK who stood up for civil rights and made much of what I do today possible. I am also thankful for my family who have researched hundreds of my family members already. I am a college age girl who is very positively encouraged and happy to be here.

I am here to research my family history and help people learn about their ancestors and reunite families who were divided by American Slave Trade. '''Once I search my family tree before 1865 there is a wall. I am here to overcome. '''

I am very interested in South Carolina and North Carolina History. Charleston, Florence County,Horry County, Richland County, to name a few main places of research. I am obsessed with libraries. Some routes may take me north to Virginia or Massachusetts because of my family's part in the Great Migration. The Great Migration was after the (Compromise of 1877) which was when the North made a deal with the South post civil war stated that the South would no longer be monitored by Northern Federal Troops to uphold their agreement and do right by the recently freed black Americans. (Research the Cornerstone Speech) The Great Migration was a time where black Americans fled the Southern United States in the wake of (The Red Summer of 1919) and constant terrorism and inability to attain fair work and self-determination in a land where their former slave owners were not taxing them without fair representation"" The requirements to join the Union were thrown away and disregarded. For example in my home state, South Carolina there were 2 state Constitutions. The (SC Constitutional Convention of 1868) was required to join the Union. The SC Constitutional Congress at the time was 70% black and accurately represented the population. It included public school for both black and white people more liberties for people of all genders and races.

However, in 1895 a new Constitution that is still enforced today rolled back liberties and stomped on the progress made by the 1868 constitution. The 1895 constitution was not sent to the public to be ratified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_South_Carolina#Changes_made_in_the_1895_Constitution

I believe there is a need and hope for redemption of the South and America in general through investigative genealogical research. Redemption in the sense not as( "Post Civil War Reconstruction/ Redemption of the South") which was purposed to revert the South to the way it was during slavery and before the Civil War. My view of Redemption as in redeeming a voucher. Knowing that all of our sins and the sins of our ancestors were paid for by the same Christ. The Truth will set us free. Genealogy is a part of the whole written truth.

By reading this I hope you were challenged, informed, and encouraged. When we learn about history and our ancestors we can be more thankful of where we are today and point our prayers and efforts directly at the stains that need to be wiped clean.

Joi

The time is always right to do what is right.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

By reading this you have already warmed my heart. <3