After the publication of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, I was contacted by Robin Burns, the fourth-generation descendant of a couple I had written about in the book: Moksad Ali, a member of the Bengali peddler network that had set up in the U.S. South, with its hub in New Orleans, and Ella Blackman, the granddaughter of an enslaved woman from Virginia, Hannah Judah, who had been born and raised in New Orleans in the late 19th century. Moksad Ali was one of the first of the peddler network to settle permanently in New Orleans, around 1890, and over several years stretching across the turn and the twentieth century, he and Ella had eight children. Ella and five of the children ended up taking part in the Great Migration and moving north to New York City after Moksad passed away. In 2014, Robin invited me and my cameraman Shamsul Islam to a family reunion that included about one hundred descendants of Moksad and Ella from four of the eight family lines deriving from their children.