Case Studies

“Every Black family in America deserves to know what was erased.”

The founding case study of Code Black. Beginning with Daniel Dajai Stewart-Handy in Las Vegas, this 60-generation trace moves through Louisiana plantation records, South Carolina slave schedules, the Charleston slave port, and across the Atlantic to the Yalunka people of the Futa Jallon highlands in modern-day Guinea. This research proved the methodology that powers the entire Code Black engine.

“The name was given. The blood was not. We trace what they tried to erase.”

The Perry family case study is deeply personal to Code Black — Armand Perry is one of the ten founders listed on the Code Black wall at Bishop Gorman High School. This research traces two distinct bloodlines: the adopted Perry surname (from slaveholders) and the biological Rone bloodline through Tasha Rone. THE RONE LINE: The white Rone slaveholding family traces to patriarch Adam Rone (1762, Netherlands/Pennsylvania → Butler County, Kentucky, d. 1829). The family spread through Mecklenburg County NC, Henderson County TN, Attala County MS, and Ray County MO — all Deep South plantation belt. 32% of modern Americans with the Rone surname are African American (1,059 people in 2010 Census), almost certainly descended from people enslaved by the Rone family. The enslaved-to-freedmen name adoption matches the exact geographic corridor of the white Rone family. THE PERRY LINE: Perry County, Alabama contained 18,206 enslaved persons in 1860 — the 14th largest slaveholding county in the entire United States. 1,045 slaveholders operated there. After emancipation, 7,204 Black Perrys appeared in the 1870 census nationwide. In South Carolina, the Perry Family Papers (1784-1924, SCHS 317.00) document Roslin Plantation slave lists, cotton/rice accounts, and a mortgage on five enslaved persons by name (1837). Governor Benjamin Franklin Perry of SC owned enslaved people and championed the Black Codes. The Seven Perry Brothers of Granville County NC trace to John Perry of Nansemond County, Virginia (c.1650) — colonial-era slaveholders who migrated south with the cotton frontier. The Peach Point Plantation in Brazoria County, Texas (Perry family, est. 1832) held 42 enslaved persons by 1860, working sugar cane under forced labor. Stephen F. Austin himself drew plans for the house.

“They deserve it. Every family does.”

The third Code Black case study: a full 10-generation blitz for Ahmere Allen, spanning 2,700 years of history. Father: Taj Mahal Allen. Mother: Nicola Deijee Davis. This case will include complete Legal Evidence Packages and full identity restoration documentation. Connected to the Code Black Founding Class through Tajon Allen.