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The Story Behind “Jones County Jubilee” and the “Free State of Jones”

By renegadesouth on January 30, 2023 • ( 3 Comments )

Originally posted on Lost River Stories:
Here’s how a lost story from the Leaf River swamp in southeast Mississippi turned into my song, “Jones County Jubilee.” The song’s roots are in a…

Marvin Tupper Jones on the History of the Chowanokes of North Carolina

By renegadesouth on September 28, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Renegade South is pleased to announce that Marvin Tupper Jones will lecture on North Carolina’s Chowanoke History on Tuesday, October 4, 11:30 am, at the Roanoke Chowan Community College in Ahoskie NC! “Last […]

Gregg Andrews on growing up in the Mississippi River Bottoms

By renegadesouth on August 18, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

GREGG ANDREWS: “I would like to thank Dean Klinkenberg for inviting me to appear as a guest on his Mississippi Valley Traveler Podcast. If you have time, here’s an audio and accompanying […]

Marvin Tupper Jones to speak on North Carolina’s Chowanoke History

By renegadesouth on August 11, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

Renegade South is pleased to announce this upcoming lecture on the indigenous people of present-day Hertford County!–VB “When I was in my twenties, my mother told me that we were descended from […]

The Southern California Civil War Roundtable Alliance meets with Victoria Bynum

By renegadesouth on July 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

On June 26, 2022, I joined the Southern California Civil War Roundtable Alliance via zoom to discuss the Free State of Jones and more. In this video of the event, I provide […]

The “74 Interview” with Howard University Professor Daryl Scott on “Grievance History” education

By renegadesouth on July 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The 74 Interview: Howard Historian Daryl Scott on ‘Grievance History,’ the 1619 Project and the ‘Possibility that We Rend Ourselves on the Question of Race’

Oma Stanley Smith (Bynum), A Father’s Day Remembrance

By renegadesouth on June 19, 2022 • ( 4 Comments )

by Vikki Bynum Adopted in 1918 at age five months by his cousin Bertie Bynum Smith and her husband Sollie, my father did not meet his biological father and siblings until age […]

The Tragic Circumstances of the Death of a Nansemond Girl Named Frankey Anderson

By renegadesouth on June 3, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

By Kianga Lucas of Native American Roots Thank you, Kianga, for this wonderful history of Frankey Anderson’s death! I came across this case in the Granville County, North Carolina, court records around […]

From Gregg Andrews’ Blog, Lost River Stories

By renegadesouth on May 27, 2022 • ( 4 Comments )

Black River Roustabouts, Lost and Found In January 1882, John Woodson, a twenty-two-year-old Black roustabout from Hannibal, Missouri, drowned near Hanging Rock, Ohio, while working on the sternwheeler John L. Rhoads, an elegant […]

Victoria Bynum to speak at Southern California Civil War Roundtable Alliance

By renegadesouth on May 18, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

I hope you’ll join us on June 26 for this discussion on Civil War dissent and The Free State of Jones!

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