Loss and Privilege: Ancestral Stories of Nathan McCraney and Luraney Driggers

Nathan's ancestors came to America in 1739 in the first wave of Scots escaping the fallout of the Jacobite Rebellion. His clan's progenitor, Gillouir MacCrain, was said to have "kept 180 Christmasses in his own house" as he stood against religious persecution during the witch hunts of Scotland. Gillouir's descendants were celebrated pioneers in America, but Nathan knew none of this. Nathan was orphaned at 2 in Florida during the Second Seminole War, the nation's largest slave uprising. Evid...