What’s In A Black Name?
There’s a profound history (and good reasons) behind the names we give our children
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4 min readMar 4, 2021
My paternal great grandfather’s name was Doctor. Doctor Livingston. He was born in the year 1879 so I never knew him, but I do know he wasn’t a doctor. On the contrary, my GGF was the son of parents who were enslaved in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
