Surviving South Carolina and Thriving from the Experience: The Gallmans and Pratts of Newberry County, South Carolina Burnett W. “Kwadwo” Gallman, Jr

This is the second of twin history books that were conceived and started almost forty years ago. A South Carolina and United States History of the Experiences of Families That Were Victimized By Human Trafficking. The first book, The Doyle Experience in South Carolina: A Family History and Photo Album: A Family’s Journeys from Afrika, Enslavement in America and American Apartheid in Dixie, was my maternal family history. This, my paternal story, starts with the Afrikan, Lumbo, who was my great-great-great grandfather. My father, Burnette William Gallman, Sr. provided a legacy and blueprint for me to follow and helped inspire in me the early efforts to find our family history despite my mother’s serious fears that I’d lose my sanity. Lumbo was the sole paternal DNA Ancestor of Gallman men. Read more