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My Alabama Shaw Family on My Father’s Side From 1861-2014

Granddaddy was a successful farmer in the 20th century.

Posted Oct 14, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
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Granddaddy was a businessman farmer and instructed Daddy, as the under-patriarch, to require all his sisters and brothers to  Read More 
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My Alabama Shaw Family on My Father’s Side From 1861-2014

Granddaddy gave daddy, his overseer, disciplinary power over his sisters and brothers

Posted Oct 13, 2016

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

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Granddaddy understood that for Daddy to run a good farm staff, he needed disciplinary power, and,  Read More 
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My Alabama Shaw Family on My Father’s Side From 1861-2014

Granddaddy nicknamed my daddy, Adam Shaw, Jr. “Boy” to keep him humble, to serve as under-patriarch of the Shaw family farm business

Posted Oct 12, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
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Family Specialist
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Granddaddy prepared to become a businessman  Read More 
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My Alabama Shaw Family on My Father’s Side From 1861-2014

Granddaddy Adam and Grand Mama Courtney organized and reorganized my daddy, aunts, and uncles, in different jobs, like corporations

Posted Oct 11, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
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As a farmer, Granddaddy insisted that Grand Mama, Daddy,  Read More 
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My Alabama Shaw Family on My Father’s Side From 1861-2014

Granddaddy Adam was a good business man

Posted Oct 10, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
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Christian Church Specialist
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I loved my grandfather with passion because he loved me, had genuine manhood, and believed in working hard, because that was  Read More 
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My Alabama Shaw Family on My Father’s Side From 1861-2014

Granddaddy’s good memory paid off

Posted Oct 7, 2016

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

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Granddaddy was a man with a good memory and everyone in the family knew it.
While he was enjoying liquor and drunkenness,  Read More 
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My Alabama Shaw Family on My Father’s Side From 1861-2014

My granddaddy taught, another way, in the 20th century, that liquor-drinking men should control the habit and not let it control them

Posted Oct 6, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
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Though I am not encouraging black  Read More 
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My Alabama Shaw Family on My Father’s Side From 1861-2014

Granddaddy Adam Shaw, Sr. was a liquor-drinking man and taught black men how to drink and save their money

Posted Oct 5, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
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Yes, my wonderful granddaddy was a liquor-drinking man, too.

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My Alabama Shaw Family on My Father’s Side From 1861-2014

Granddaddy loved his siblings born to his mother who was freed from slavery, in 1861, and the conversation shows that he became an investor in more land to help Uncle Charlie Moore, his half-sibling, born to Great Grandmother Julie, to keep the land in the family

Posted Oct 4, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
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My Alabama Shaw Family on My Father’s Side From 1861-2014

Granddaddy was a financial investor

Posted Oct 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

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Granddaddy was also a financial investor.

Granddaddy became an investor by pulling bark and gambling and saving his money. When he accumulated enough  Read More 
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