Lineage
Lineage is a research-led archive from Roots and Ties, honoring historical Black women whose lives shaped the systems, ideas, and structures we still live inside today — the counterpart to Continuum. Origin Fire, our first wave of twelve figures, is available now as two digital postcard collections: First Flame Daughters and Freedom's First Draft.
Lineage: First Flame Daughters
Origin Fire's first wave — six women who moved first, before safety, before applause. Their legacy is initiation: the first step that changes what everyone else can do.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, First Flame Daughters Title Card (Set of 10) — Lineage: Origin Fire Collection | Roots and Ties, First Flame Daughters Digital
8 postcards in this set
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Freedom's First Draft
Origin Fire's second wave — six women who wrote it first, before the world had language for it. Their legacy is authorship: proof that freedom could be drafted before it was granted.
Charlotte Forten Grimké, Susie King Taylor, Harriet Jacobs, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Sarah Parker Remond, Maria W. Stewart, Freedom's First Draft Digital
7 postcards in this set
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