There is an article in the Federalist, “ How This Slave Descendant Celebrates Juneteenth In Alabama, And You Can Too” by CHRISTINE WEERTS, PUBLISHED JUNE 17, 2019 : https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/17/slave-descendant-celebrates-juneteenth-alabama-can/ Contains some genealogical information:
For Betty Anderson, the oldest national commemoration of the end of slavery, Juneteenth, is profoundly personal. Anderson traces her family back into slavery and knows their names: Isaac and Vina Pettway, her great-great grandparents born in 1840s, and their eight children, three of whom, including her great grandfather Stamper Pettway, also were born into slavery.
In 1846, Isaac and Vina’s parents arrived in Alabama after walking 700 miles with 98 other slaves from their owner Mike Pettway’s plantation in North Carolina to the Alabama plantation he was given to pay off a debt. The 4,000-acre cotton plantation, founded by Joseph Gee in 1816, was located on an isolated triple turn of the Alabama River, known as “Gee’s Bend.” Pettway gave every slave—his and the 47 that “came with” the plantation—the name Pettway.
Isaac and Vina are in WikiTree : Pettway-29 and Petway-25
These Pettways are connected to the Gees Bend Quilters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilts_of_Gee's_Bend
