SANKOFA is an Akan word meaning "go back and take." Good and useful things can be taken from the past to drive positive progress in the present through the benevolent use of knowledge.

Sankofa-gen Wiki is a growing collection of freely accessible genealogical and historical data pertaining to U.S.A. antebellum plantations, farms, factories, manors, etc. that used African slave labor. This site is a wiki which means that you, the slave genealogy researcher, can add and update information instantly.

Editing content is as simple as posting on a message board. Start today by sending me an e-mail expressing your interest in contributing: kh(underscore)art (at yahoo dot com) with "Sankofagen Wiki Contributor" in the subject line.

This website is not to be used as a primary source of information. This website is not meant to serve as a substitute for original sources (Wills, bills of sale, deeds). This website aims to summarize plantation-related data in a way that allows the genealogist to better visualize the lives of our enslaved ancestors within a historical context...

• Was the slave buyer a relative of the seller?
• Did the buyer relocate?
• Were plantations connected by slave holder marriages?
• Was my ancestor sent away to another plantation because the planter's family owned plantations in other states?

This project is a labor of love. I wish to assist those who, like myself, face the "brick wall" of slavery as we try to trace our lineage. I hope you find this site helpful. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

---Chief Editor, Karmella Haynes

Enslaved Ancestor Workplaces

Enslaved African Ancestor Genealogy Links

• The African-Native American History and Genealogy Web Page
• Afrigeneas
• The Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery
• Runaway Slave Blog
• Slave Archival Collection, nation-wide
• South Carolina Plantations
• U.S. African-American Griots
• The University of South Florida Africana Heritage Project