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Pamela Bailey is the creator of the Antebellum Diaspora Project. She is a nationally published author, educator and podcaster. She is a self-described “Carolina Daughter" living in Dallas, Texas.  She is descended from people who were enslaved and emancipated in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, which was originally inhabited by the native Pee Dee tribes.

 

The importance of her family’s history was inculcated into her upbringing by her parents, who shared ancestral stories and music that had been passed down for generations in their respective families. Having researched her family’s genealogy for more than 15 years, history and culture largely inform her music and writing. 

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She earned her MFA Degree in Non-fiction Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, and her undergraduate degree in Business Marketing from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Pamela worked for many years as an adjunct professor at Dallas Baptist University in Dallas, Texas. While teaching world literature to her students, she was inspired to create a lyceum to share the music and history of the African American experience that her students felt had been largely absent from their formal educational experiences. She is currently a member of Southern Methodist University's Oral History Cluster and the Texas Oral History Association.

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Her company, Blue Rose Media Group, LLC., is a multimedia company that uses powerful storytelling to educate and promote racial healing, equity, and social justice across media. 

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As a public scholar, the Antebellum Diaspora Project provides Pamela opportunities to collaborate with scholars, in the US and internationally, on the subject of forced migration of American-born enslaved people and the lasting effects of forced family separations on their descendants.