Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 57 ancestors 54 forebears 51 slaves 51 slavery 50 enslaved Africans 50 descendants 49 descendents 49 forbears 48 forefathers 47 genealogies 47 ancestor 47 ancestral roots 46 Moravians 46 Civil Rights Movement 45 Slavery 45 ancestry 45 freed slaves 45 Methodism 45 slave 44 heritages 44 genealogist 44 descendant 44 Creoles 44 racial oppression 43 slave masters 43 oppression 43 genealogical 43 abolitionist movement 43 Frederick Douglass 43 spirituals 43 ancestral 43 Fannie Lou Hamer 43 transatlantic slave trade 42 freedmen 42 WEB Du Bois 42 oral histories 42 forbearers 42 dispossession 42 history 42 Negroes 42 folklorist 42 emancipation 42 slave rebellion 42 civil rights 42 abolish slavery 42 Native Americans 42 genealogy 41 Gullah 41 sharecroppers 41 Freedmen 41 WEB DuBois 41 blacks 41 colonialism 41 diasporic 41 injustices 41 descendent 41 roots 41 Ancestors 41 enslaved 41 histories 41 historian 40 G. Woodson 40 indentured laborers 40 heritage 40 runaway slaves 40 Shirley Chisholm 40 historians 40 Zora Neale Hurston 40 Slave Trade 40 griot 40 founding fathers 40 biblical texts 40 slaveholders 40 Colonialism 40 Ralph Ellison 40 Judeo Christian tradition 40 Harriet Tubman 40 Tubman 40 antebellum 40 sharecropper 40 oppressors 40 Freedom Rides 40 Romare Bearden 40 racial injustice 40 enslavement 39 legacies 39 writings 39 artifacts 39 Antebellum 39 religious persecution 39 SNCC 39 diasporas 39 Founding Fathers 39 succeeding generations 39 colonialists 39 grandfathers 39 freemen 39 homelands 39 Lumbees 39 traditions 39 Afrikan