Barbara Bonfield

Barbara Bonfield

Barbara Bonfield, a native of Lincoln, Alabama, has been an active leader for decades in Birmingham nonprofit organizations focusing on human rights and helping the underserved, underprivileged, and underrepresented. An enthusiastic genealogist, she and her brother Jimmy have done extensive research and documentation of their family history; in the process, they discovered that their Embry ancestors in Lincoln owned six slaves in the early 1800s. Barbara wrote a short family history about that discovery for the Talladega County heritage book; and not long afterward, to her surprise, she was contacted by Dorothy Tuck, a descendant of one of those slaves. Their telephone conversation led to a long friendship and a poignant journey into their shared family histories, which they are now sharing with others.

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