Ancestors of MeShawn Nicole WrightWhen asked to research the ancestry of a mixed race woman, I thought it would probably be a short search as records for African Americans tend to disappear before the Civil War. I was totally wrong. At least two lines of MeShawn's ancestry were Free Blacks who lived above the Mason Dixon line. They owned businesses, some were ministers, and were an important part of their communities. Another line, ending up in Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina