What's Yo' Name Boy?
What's in a name? How important is your last name to you? Where did it come from? Past slave owner? More than likely, yes. So what does your name mean to you?
I was watching a PBS documentary about the "Quilts of Gee’s Bend" exhibition. Here is a little background information about Gee’s Bend:
Gee’s Bend is a small rural community nestled into a curve in the Alabama River southwest of Selma, Alabama. Founded in antebellum times, it was the site of cotton plantations, primarily the lands of Joseph Gee and his relative Mark Pettway, who bought the Gee estate in 1850. After the Civil War, over 100 freed slaves took the name Pettway, became tenant farmers for the Pettway family, and founded an all-black community nearly isolated from the surrounding world.
While I knew many of our families took the name of our slave owners, it really didn’t hit me until seeing this documentary. There was just something about seeing these people living on the same land of the plantation on which their ancestors were slaves and with the grave of their ancestors slave master just down the street. And still today the majority of the community carries the last name Pettway, although they aren't blood related.
Just a few questions.
What does your last name really mean to you? Have you even thought about it? It is only your identity.
Have you ever thought about changing your last name because of the possible attachment to a past slave owner?
Do you think changing your last name will bring about more freedom for you?
Comments
My last name has meaning for me because as an adult, I found out that my last name belonged to my father's stepfather who had not adopted him. I changed my last to Scott in honor of my father's mother and her family. My siblings and I have always been very close to my grandmother who practically raised us. She passed away in 2004.
Posted by: Scott | March 9, 2006 04:09 PM
I've decided to keep my last name although it probably was the name of a slave owner. The reason to keep it is that I am honoring not the owner but the African men and women who took his name, willingly or not, but who kept his family safe and his business running despite working in inhumane and prison-like conditions. They were the strongest of humans, emotionally as well as physically, the best and the brightest, and should be honored whenever the situation presents itself.
Posted by: Jules W. | June 8, 2006 01:36 AM
My name is Carolyn Pettway Redditt. I would like some information on Mark Pettway who owned the Plantation in Gees Bend.
Posted by: Carolyn Redditt | June 12, 2006 07:58 PM
Having lost my father when i was a very young boy, i looked at my surname as something that connected me to him & so it had great meaning. After sharing many years with another wonderful man, we both took each other's last names & both became "Hucks-Ortiz". My love has since also passed away but i keep this new hyphenated name as a symbol of honor for the two great men who have helped to shape my life.
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