Revised Edition of Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color, by Author Anita L. Wills. The expands and continues Chronicles from The first Edition. It is historically accurate includes newly uncovered information on Mary and Patty Bowden, Charles and Ambrose Lewis, and the Lancaster and Northumberland County VA Pinn Lines, Sarah Evans-Pinn, and their allied lines. This edition also includes information on DNA Testing, Genealogy, and a how to for beginning researchers.
Notes and documents is 294 pages, with Table of contents, Appendix, Bibliography, Endnotes, and Index. The book chronicles are of an African American Family who were designated as Free Persons of Color, in Colonial Virginia. They were Virginia's own Creole Population.
At the time of the Revolutionary War, a fifth of the Colonial population was African American. By 1779, 15 percent of the Continental Army were former slaves, while the Navy recruited both free men and slaves. More than 5000 black Americans fought for independence in an integrated military--it would be the last until the Korean War. The majority of Indian tribes sided with the British yet some Native Americans rallied to the American cause and suffered heavy losses. Of 26 Wampanoag enlistees from the small town of Mashpee on Cape Cod, only one came home. Half of the Pequots who went to war did not survive. Mohegans John and Samuel Ashbow fought at Bunker Hill. Samuel was killed there--the first Native American to die in the Revolution. This history recounts the sacrifices made by forgotten people of color to gain independence for the people who enslaved and extirpated them.
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“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.
Along the Rappahannock the Homeland of the Nanzatico Indian Nation is about a entire tribe written out of history. The Nanzatico lived along the Rappahannock River in Virginia for thousands of years. They lived in intricate longhouses and communities along the Rappahannock River. An incident took place in 1704 that caused a backlash felt by descendants to this day. The Author is telling the story as a descendant of the Nanzatico Indian Nation through her Ancestors Indian Charles and Charles Lewis. This is a must read for Students of History, History Buffs, and the General Public.
