Abram Bellamy was born an enslaved man. Like millions of others freed after the Emancipation Proclamation, his name doesn’t appear until the 1870 census, 60 years after his birth. After discovering his Freedmen’s Labor Contract via the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal, I decided to piece together the missing pieces of Abram, my (Chris Moore) 4x Great-Grandfather.
What follows is an extensive experience that includes archival documents and records to not only piece together his life but also definitively prove the source of his surname, where he and his family lived, and hidden in a will by his original enslaver, the name of his mother.
This experience is best viewed on a desktop, but it works perfectly fine on mobile. You can also select one of 3 different paths that feature content unique to the journey you select. This is history remixed by Riot of Colors.
abrambellamy.com
