In m last post, I began to explore the notion that my great grandfather was adopted by a white family. This is my theory that needs to be explored more because of a number of facts. The first one being that the people listed as his parents were both born in 1877. That would be 12 years after the emancipation of my people. So the questions that lie would be was my grandfather a victim of hostility and forceful taken from his parents ? Or were these people some of the few at this time that would have stood up for the rights of my people. I am urged to believe the latter is true because of the fact that while he was not educated, according to the census, he had to be an educated man in order to be a prominent preacher during his time. In reading up on him, I cannot help but to connect this narrative with that of the boy from Oxherding Tales.