Annie Shaw-Barnes

Granddaddy Adam and Grandmother Courtney never said anything to hurt each other’s feelings

Posted Aug 16, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

Hi everyone,

Granddaddy and Grand Mama never said anything to hurt each other's feelings.

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Granddaddy Adam Shaw, Sr. and his second wife, Grand Mama Courtney, never had an argument

Posted Aug 15, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

Hi everyone,

I asked my daddy, Adam Shaw, Jr., to tell me about Granddaddy and  Read More 

Granddaddy Adam and Grandmother Courtney called each other sweet names and romanced each other’s backs and lips, when the spirit hit them, in and out of their children’s presence

Posted Aug 12, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism  Read More 

My handsome granddaddy Adam Shaw was married twice, and he and his second wife, Grand Mama Courtney, romanced a lifetime.

Posted Aug 11, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

Hi everyone,

During Granddaddy Adam Shaw’s 99 years of life,  Read More 

Today I introduce the Second Generation in my Shaw family. He is Granddaddy Adam Shaw, Sr., born in marriage to Great Grandmother Julie and Great Granddaddy Josh Boykin, and he married Grand Mama Courtney

Posted Aug 10, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian  Read More 

I have talked about some of Great Grandmother Julie’s peers. After their varied life and her improved self-taught understanding about sex, family organization, and family life, she married my great grandfather, Josh Boykin, and conceived my grandfather and birthed him in their married union.

Posted Aug 9, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
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My husbands’ antebellum ancestors were peers of Great Grandmother Julie and next time, we will continue my family story that reaches from 1861 to 2014

Posted Aug 8, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

Hi everyone,

My husband, Bennie Barnes, shares  Read More 

Dr. Benson, had a confluence of blacks and whites in his genealogy and the antebellum ones were ahead of my grandmother Julie

Posted August 5, 2016
Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

Hi everyone,

Dr. Benson’s relatives were during  Read More 

I have one friend, Mrs. Massie, in Royal Oak Manor Neighborhood in Northwest Atlanta, Georgia, whose grandmother was great grandmother’s peer, and she worked for Confederate Brigadier General Beauregard during the War between the states to keep them slave peers

Posted August 4, 2016
Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
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Mr. Marshall, in Royal Oak Manor, knew about two of his ancestors who were Great Grandmother Julie’s peers

Posted Aug 3, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

Hi everyone,

Mr. Marshall’s two relatives, in the Antebellum Era,  Read More