Research and Publications
THE NEWTON COUNTY AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILY RESEARCH PROJECT
The Newton County African-American Family Research Project, supported
by the MARIAL Center, the Office of University-Community Partnership,
and the Southern Studies Program at Oxford College of Emory University,
seeks to document and understand the roles played by narrative,
story-telling, and ritual performance in the lives of African-American
families in the county. For more information about this project,
please contact: Dr. Mark Auslander, Department of Anthropology,
Oxford College of Emory University, Oxford GA 30054. Telephone:
(770) 784-4664. Email: mausland@learnlink.emory.edu
Family History Papers
The following documents, emerging out of research by faculty and
students at Oxford College, chronicle various aspects of family
history and memory in the local African American community. Please
share corrections, suggestions and more information with us.
Paper #1. Gifts of Love: Biographies of the “Young at Heart”
at Grace United Methodist Church, Covington, GA. Part I. Edited
by Mark Auslander. Students at Oxford College interviewed senior
citizens at Grace Church in Covington about their lives and family
memories.
Paper #2. The Hendrick/Hendrix Family:
The Early Years By Mark Auslander. The early history of the
Hendrick/Hendrix family, descended from the enslaved woman Susannah
Hendricks (b. 1810) and Dr. John Hendricks (b. 1817).
Paper #3. Remembering the Founders:
Early Trustees of Rust Chapel United Methodist Church of Oxford,
Georgia, Part I. Edited by Mark Auslander. Essays by faculty
and students at Oxford College explore the 19th century history
of the Oxford African American community and discuss the life histories
of several founding members of Rust Chapel, the oldest African American
church in Oxford, GA.
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NOTE: Papers are in Adobe Acrobat file format. If you do not
have the Acrobat reader, you can download it for free directly
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Other On Line Resources on African American Family History in Newton
County
"The Myth of Kitty: Paradoxes of Blood,
Law and Slavery in a Georgia Community" (MARIAL Working
Paper 001-01) January 2001 - Mark Auslander
"Reconciliation
Begins at Home: Remembering African American Contributions at Emory
and Oxford" Mark Auslander, The Academic Exchange,
December 2001/January 2002.
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