Annie Shaw-Barnes

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

Hi everyone,

Granddaddy was a man with a good memory and everyone in the family knew it.
While he was enjoying liquor and drunkenness,  Read More 

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.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

Hi everyone,

Though I am not encouraging black  Read More 

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.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

Hi everyone,

Yes, my wonderful granddaddy was a liquor-drinking man, too.

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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.
Author and Speaker
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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

Hi everyone,

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 

Granddaddy was a gambling man

Posted Sept 30, 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,

Granddaddy was a gambling man.

He gambled with cards, and my research into card playing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, indicated that  Read More 

Granddaddy liked the large tar industry

Posted Sept 29, 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,

Granddaddy liked the tar manufacturing industry and his job was called pulling tar.

Granddaddy made certain he earned a thousand dollars a  Read More 

Granddaddy Adam understood that he worked in the widespread tar industry

Posted Sept 28, 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,

Tar was not a new industry in America in the 1930s and 1940s.

The industry had existed  Read More 

What is tar that Granddaddy Adam emptied from cups under indentations on pine trees?

Posted Sept 27, 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,

What is tar?

Tar is a blackish brown liquid that carries the scent of  Read More 

Granddaddy Adam pulled bark to get tar, from pine trees, to earn financial support for his family

Posted Sept 26, 2916

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,

After marriage, Granddaddy did hard labor-- pulling bark to get tar  Read More