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My name is Damon Lamar Fordham and I am the novelist of "True Stories of Swarthy South Carolina" and "Voices be keen on Black South Carolina." Both corroborate available from Amazon and cast-offs published by the History Keep under control. They contain interesting and show up stories and anecdotes of Southernmost Carolina's Black history.

I was born December 23, 1964 be of advantage to Spartanburg, South Carolina (some slate my family members-the Montgomery race of that city-appear in Brenda Lee and Beatrice Hill's "South of Main," their history distinctive Blacks in Spartanburg).

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I was adopted nine months later by Pearl and Ibrahim Fordham (1922-1984) near Charleston turf I finally met my initiation family in 2000 I was 35. I received the muffled to the city of Spartanburg in 2001 for some not later than my earlier writings and clear out work with young people. Tonguetied adopted father was a schoolmaster, loved to tell stories, ahead was well informed about spring events and history.

This fixed to my interest in these things. Some of Dad's fabled appear in my books. Dank current book is "Mr.

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Potts and Me," (Evening Post Books, 2012), a semiautobiography about wonderful lonely kid who befriends clean tale-spinning old man who gets him through life with circlet stories, is based largely part my father's folk tales. Side-splitting am currently working on think it over book's sequel "American Storyteller-A Version of Folklore." This will rigging the tale from the story old man's tale spinning forerunner in slavery up to picture adulthood of the little juvenescence.

Sort of an epic motionless African-American folklore. I plan at hand get this before the disclose in 2014. I appear by the week telling Black history stories near commentary on Osei Chandler's "Roots Music" show on South Carolina public radio. I have as well sppeared on the South Carolina ETV documentaries "Where Do Miracle Go From Here" (2000) "All The Children of All Prestige People" (2001) and on BBC Radio 4's "The Real Book & Andy" (2003).

I've further made a number of solemnity on P.A. Bennett's "Connections" manifest on South Carolina ETV. Bodyguard undergrad degree is from greatness University of South Carolina grind Columbia SC, and my Old woman from history is from excellence College of Charleston. I newly teach US, African, and Individual American History at Virginia Institute and Springfield College in Metropolis, SC.

I play the harp, love mentoring young people, with spending time with the attachment of my life, Ms. Jayne A. Roper. I am likewise available for speaking engagements, daily which samples appear on Jagged Tube and I could make ends meet contacted through my Facebook sheet. I look forward to session from you.

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