Indiana: Been Here All Along (with Lisa Fanning) | Episode 100
About this episode
Lisa Fanning shares her family's deep roots in America and the story of a free Black settlement in Indiana.
What does it mean to be an American when your family has been here longer than America itself? Lisa Fanning, a board member of the National Genealogical Society and DNA expert, has spent decades uncovering a story so layered, so uniquely American that it stopped me in my tracks. She descends from four of the six families who packed up a covered wagon and caravaned from North Carolina in the 1820s to build a thriving free Black settlement in southern Indiana called Lost Creek. But the story do...
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