{"id":333,"date":"2022-06-18T21:53:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T04:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/?p=333"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T20:48:20","slug":"a-letter-from-1867-arrives-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/a-letter-from-1867-arrives-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"A letter from 1867 arrives in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hawkins Wilson wrote a letter to the Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau searching for the family he was separated from as a 6-year-old. It was May of 1867. He described his mother, uncle, and siblings and their location in Virginia before his enslaver took him away to Galveston, Texas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the story of how his letter achieved its goal in 2022 in the exquisite video &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tg99_BdeSYw\" target=\"_blank\">A Dream Delivered: The Lost Letters of Hawkins Wilson<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well done, Ancestry, and thank you Anthony Anderson, Dr Henry Louis Gates, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whoisnickasmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicka Sewell-Smith<\/a> for sharing this touching story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkins Wilson wrote a letter to the Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau searching for the family he was separated from as a 6-year-old. It was May of 1867. He described his mother, uncle, and siblings and their location in Virginia before his enslaver took him away to Galveston, Texas. Watch the story of how his letter achieved its &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/a-letter-from-1867-arrives-in-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A letter from 1867 arrives in 2022&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history-and-identity","category-impacts","tag-african-american-heritage-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conniedavis.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}