The following excerpt is from a fascinating article in the June 18, 2013 edition of the Victoria Advocate.
For most of his life, Daryl Ewers believed he was white, but two years ago, he learned he is a descendant of slaves.
“I just found out a few years ago that I am part black. I did not know this,” he said
Ewers, 54, of Victoria, said learning he has black ancestry is very exciting and his main reason for talking about it is because he wants to get in touch with his African-American relatives from whom his paternal family was separated during slavery.
“My great-great-grandfather was William B. Shields, a planter from Perry County, Ala., who had several biracial children by a black slave woman. I don’t know who she was. I don’t know her name or what their relationship was,” he said.
Before then, the Shields family, who was of Irish origins, had lived in North Carolina, he said.
