Tag: Gwen Marable

  • Banneker’s family tree still bears rich fruit The Baltimore Sun 2006-06-12 Gregory Kane And so Molly Welsh, an Englishwoman sentenced to indentured servitude in 17th-century Maryland, wed an African slave named Bannaka. And they begat four daughters, one of whom was named Mary. And Mary wed a slave named Robert, who took her last name,…