Lewis Tappan

Achieving a new and historic milestone for documenting a group of enslaved people and their descendants.

I’ve tracked nearly 3,000 people to the formerly enslaved of the Trask and Ventress families. Now, I’m celebrating that milestone by releasing (most of) them online.

The story of a couple, the families they descend from, and the duality of their life as descendants of both slaveholders and abolitionists in the north.

The story of a couple, the families they descend from, and the duality of their life as descendants of both slaveholders and abolitionists in the north.