Woni Spotts is an avid genealogist, tracing all four grandparents' ancestry to the 1700s in America.
Woni Spotts' great-grandfather Robert Charles Hamilton was born into slavery in Bluffton, South Carolina in 1850. His daughter Marian Hamilton Spotts' civil rights accomplishments are celebrated at the Amistad Research Center.
After Woni Spotts' history making travels were made public, she endured a barrage of online bullying from another traveler's supporters.