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Osay is born in Loango. He was born with two brothers and a sister. His parents were suffering not being able to pay for food.
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Ferry is born in Loango. She lives with a mom and sister. Her dad left them when she was 5.
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Osay Tendy marries Ferrr Pefa. Osay is 21 years old and Ferry is 18.
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Jingo Tendy is born. He is the son of Osay and Ferry Tendy. He will soon go on a long adventure to America.
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The family comes from Loango to New York on the Witte Paard. This is the start of their journey to America. Jingo is 8 years old, Ferry is 27 and Osay is 34. This is a picture of the Witte Paard.
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John Terry buys Ferry and Jingo at an auction and William Gardner buys Osay. John takes Ferry and Jingo to his house in Jamestown and William takes Osay to his house in Savannah, Georgia.
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Ferry Tendy dies at the age of 43 because of lack of nutrition.
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Osay dies at age 53 because of disease.
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Jingo meets Tanna Quagmar, another slave of John, and they marry.
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Tanna and Jingo have twins
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John puts the family up for auction and Jingo and Sid get bought by Daniel Wellington and takes them back to his house in Birmingham, Alabama. Sugar and Tanna get bought by Nicholas Jefferson who takes them back to Raliegh, North Carolina. This is a picture of the receipt that was given to Daniel Wellington.
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Jingo lives till he is 46 years old. He dies in Birmingham Alabama because of lack of food.
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Sugar marries Wafer Gotasay, another slave of Nicholas Jefferson.
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Tanna dies of illness
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Sid marries Jill Combar , another slave of Daniel Wellington.
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Sugar and Wafer have Agnes Gotasay
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After Wafer and Sugar have Agnes, Sugar becomes weaker. Jefferson thinks that Sugar and Agnes are not useful so he decides to sell then to Kevin Ballador from Columbia, South Carolina.
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Sid and Jill have Eddison
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Sid and Jill have Benjamin. Eddison is 2 years older than Benjamin.
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Benjamin, Eddison, and Sid get sold to Bill Pryor of Columbus, Ohio, while Jill stays with Daniel Wellington of Birnmingham, Alabama. Wellington decides to sell the boys because he find better work with new slaves Ed and Steve Agrios.
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Sid dies of bad nutrition
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Wafer dies of torture
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Jill dies of disease
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Agnes marries Horton Warboway, another slave of Kevin Ballador
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Sugar dies of lack of nutrition
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Skipper Warboway is the son of Horton and Agnes Warboway.
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Eddison marries Curassa Arge, another slave of Bill Pryor.
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Benijamin marrie May Bora, another slave of Bill Pryor.
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Agnes is bought by James Keller of Newport, Rhode Island, while Skipper stays with Kevin Ballador of Columbia, South Carolina, and Horton is bought by Steve Jones in New York, New York. Skipper has to work hard for Kevin Ballador because Agnes is diseased with Cholera. Since Agnes is now not so functional Ballador decides to sell her. Horton is sold to Jones because Ballador and Horton did not get along. Horton disobeyed Ballador, even after many punishments Horton did not learn.
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Benjamin and May Tendy and Quaco Tendy
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Bill Pryor sells Quaco and Benjamin to Granger Ford who lives in Pittsburg and keeps May as a housemaid.
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BIll Pryor sells Latty and Curassa to Hart McDonald who lives in Vermont and he keeps Eddison.
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The Northwest Ordinance did not allow for any masters to have slaves in the Northwest territory. Latty, Francis, and Elizabeth were seperated because of this. Their owners was planning to move up to the NorthWest with their family, once they learned that they would not bring slaves up there they decided to auction the slaves off for money. Latty and Elizabeth were sold to Master Longinwood and Francis was sold to Master Sheldon.
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Latty and Elizabeth were sold to Master Longinwood and Francis was sold to Master Sheldon. This was because of the Northwest Ordinance.
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Granger Ford sellls Alice to Mark Gordon who lives in Nashville Tennesee
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Latty's ebola is treated so she will survive.
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Granger Ford beats Quaco so hard on his leg that he cannot use it.
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Ebola comes back to Latty and this time she dies.
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The Missouri Compromise is spreading slavery so in 1820 Earnest is seperated from Quaco. Earnest is sold to Ben Elyner, he is getting older and his owner thinks he is worthless. Quaco is sold to Ogwan Tosho because he is to weak from lack of nutrition.
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Vera gives birth to Kerry, Lou and Robin
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The Fugitive Slave Act inforced that if any run away slaves were caught they would be brought back to their slave owners. Free blacks that were captured would be returned to owners or were to be found a new owner. Kale was a run away slave, he was caught and brought back to his owner. This was when he met Stevie. They got married soon after he was returned to his master.
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The Compromise added California as a free state. This made slave trade illegal, while slavery was still legal. Since there was no slave trade allowed the master of Vera had no choice but to kill of some of his slaves or else his plantation would be over flowed with slaves. Since Vera was a girl and was not strong enough to do much labor work she was one of th slaves that would be punished until death.
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Vera Orta dies of bad treatment from slave owner.
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This act allowed Kansas and Nebraska to become slave states. This affected our family because it caused Lou, Ben, and Sisy to be seperated. Their owner decided to sell Ben beause he never got along with anyone. He made messes and caused trouble. Their slave owner was nice but one day Ben did something so bad he could not stand it. Ben was then auctioned and sold to Larry Goodwind of Nebraska.
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Ben was sold to Larry Goodwind in Nebraska and Lou and Sisy stayed.
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Kale dies of a heat stokes.
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This freed all the slaves. Robin and Lacy were freed and they found and home to start a family. They had a child named Steve. He was the first child in our family born to never having to becone a slave.
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Robin and Lacy are freed and they settle down to have their first child Steve.
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Steve was freed because the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery. Since there was no longer any slavery our family wherever they ended up would no longer have to work for people that controlled their life.
