Her Grandmother Said Cajun. Her DNA Said She Wasn't Who She Thought.

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Her grandmother said they were Cajun, "French, and a little Indian." Then Brandi's DNA test came back almost 4% African, and a trail of Louisiana Creole records led her to a 2-year-old girl listed in an 1860 estate inventory. This is the true story of Philomène: born enslaved in St. Landry Parish, recorded as white twenty years later, and remembered by two families, one Cajun and one Black Creole, who each kept only half of her story for more than a century. In this video: - What Cajun DNA results can (and can't) reveal about hidden ancestry - How the 1860 slave schedule and Louisiana succession records name the enslaved - Why so many Southern families turned an African ancestor into "Indian" - How Louisiana's 1894 marriage ban and Plessy v. Ferguson kept families apart - The one marriage record that changed everything Chapters 0:00 "That's the Indian" 0:34 The DNA test that didn't fit 1:46 The Black Creole cousins 2:59 Philomène in the census 3:45 Searching for her mother 4:34 The

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