{"id":34070,"date":"2013-10-03T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34070"},"modified":"2013-10-03T05:03:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T05:03:12","slug":"descendants-of-norwich-slave-owner-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34070","title":{"rendered":"Descendants of Norwich slave, owner meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Descendants of Norwich slave, owner meet<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Norwich Bulletin<\/a>
\nNorwich, Connecticut
\n2012-03-29<\/p>\n

Adam Benson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Norwich, Conn.<\/a>\u2014When descendants of Norwich slave Guy Drock and the man who owned him met\u00a0 for the first time Thursday, they weren\u2019t sure what would happen.<\/p>\n

Grant Hayter-Menzies\u2019<\/a> fifth-generation great-grandfather, Capt. Benejah Bushnell, owned Drock for a decade in the mid-1700s in Norwich.<\/p>\n

Hayter-Menzies, of British Columbia<\/a>; Daryl D\u2019Angelo, of Amherst, N.H.<\/a>; and her cousin, Donald Roddy<\/a>, of Spokane, Wash.<\/a> \u2014 all of them white \u2014 came to Karen Cook\u2019s U.S. history class at Norwich Free Academy with a story they said had to be told.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have any of the cultural and social legacies of someone who grew up identified as an African-American, and I still had a moment of, \u2018What does this guy want from me,\u2019\u201d D\u2019Angelo said of meeting Hayter-Menzies.<\/p>\n

Hayter-Menzies was apprehensive, too…<\/p>\n

… Roddy, a retired airline pilot, said he stumbled across his Drock lineage several years ago, while doing genealogical research on his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no idea I had African ancestors until a few years ago,\u201d Roddy said. \u201cNo one in my living family had a clue about that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hayter-Menzies said he\u2019s forged a unique bond with D\u2019Angelo and Roddy, and quickly felt a kinship with them once they finally met.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first reaction was to reach out and hug you,\u201d Hayter-Menzies told D\u2019Angelo. \u201cWe feel like friends already.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Descendants of Norwich slave, owner meet Norwich Bulletin Norwich, Connecticut 2012-03-29 Adam Benson Norwich, Conn.\u2014When descendants of Norwich slave Guy Drock and the man who owned him met\u00a0 for the first time Thursday, they weren\u2019t sure what would happen. Grant Hayter-Menzies\u2019 fifth-generation great-grandfather, Capt. Benejah Bushnell, owned Drock for a decade in the mid-1700s in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,6940,20],"tags":[16005,2724,16002,16001,16000,16003,16004],"class_list":["post-34070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-adam-benson","tag-connecticut","tag-daryl-dangelo","tag-donald-roddy","tag-grant-hayter-menzies","tag-norwich","tag-norwich-bulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}