Noisette family to gatherBy Wevonneda Minis (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Thursday, August 21, 2008
There's a special kind of reunion that is occurring more and more. It's the kind where blacks and whites reach across the racial divide to explore a shared history, no matter what the relationships among their ancestors were. They meet on plantations, at houses of worship and in urban settings for long weekends to share their pieces of the stories that illuminate who they are and how they came to be. Over the past 30 years such gatherings have taken place in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina and elsewhere. Each occurrence was a little miraculous. This weekend, the descendants of 18th French botanist Philippe Noisette (1773-1835) and Celestine, the mulatto wife he brought to Charleston when he fled the Haitian Revolution, will meet in North Charleston with Noisettes from France, Haiti and the United States. Read more of Wevonneda Minis' column in tomorrow's Post and Courier. |
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