The Stagville Society

Stagville Descendants Council

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

PURPOSE

We, the descendants of Africans who were captured, taken from their homeland, enslaved, and held captive for hundreds of years, believe that we should honor our history and remember those who suffered and continue to suffer injustices, cruelties, brutalities, inhumanities and exploitations of racism, economic discrimination and oppression.

DEFINITION

The Stagville Society is an alliance, connecting descendents of those once enslaved on the Bennehan Cameron Plantation.  This alliance is necessary because, although many descendents settled in Durham, North Carolina, there were also ancestors who lived on plantation lands in Mississippi and Alabama, and there are now family members throughout the world. 

The Stagville Society is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, created to support and assist the descendants and the communities in which they live.  We work to record and preserve our historical records, produce educational information, and conduct charitable events relating to our family history and the Bennehan-Cameron plantation complex. 

The Stagville Descendants Council is an auxiliary group that works to preserve the genealogical history of the descendents that lived, worked, were purchased for, and died on the Bennehan-Cameron plantation complex.

INVITATION

Please help us create, maintain, and update our historical records.  Any family history, photographs, stories, or other pertinent documents you could share will help us in our efforts to expand our genealogical database.

Information is power and documentation is proof.  Help us record and honor those who came before us.  We must commit ourselves to finding the truth of OUR story and not HIS story.

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The Stagvile Descendants Council Annual Membership Application

Make money order payable to: Stagville Descendents Council

Student:  $10.00 _____                        Individual Lifetime Membership: $500.00 ______

Individual: $25.00 _____                   Institutional Membership: $1000.00 ________

Family: $100.00 ______                      Other Amount: $__________

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