For those of you interested in learning more about the role played by Harmon Levi Sumrall in the Free State of Jones, please visit Robert Moore’s Southern Unionists Chronicles . There, I have posted and analyzed excerpts from depositions provided by H.L. Sumrall on behalf of Newt Knight for the U.S. Court of Claims in 1890 and 1895.
Top Posts
- The Life and Death of Davis Knight after State vs. Knight (1948)
- Part 2: Yvonne Bivins on the History of Rachel Knight
- Rachel Knight: Does a Photo of Her Exist?
- Documents on the Shelton Laurel Massacre from the North Carolina State Archives
- Free People of Color in Slaveholding North Carolina: The Andersons of Granville County
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- A great day at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Texas Center for Working Class Studies.
- Free State of Jones Spotlighted by National Humanities Alliance as Exemplary NEH-Sponsored Work!
- Victoria Bynum is Keynote Speaker at 4th Annual Conference of Texas Center for Working-Class Studies
- Noted Civil War Historian Dr. Victoria Bynum to Host Screening of The Free State of Jones
- Project MUSE – The Free State of Jones : A Roundtable
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- Joe Ann Lynch Barbour on Free People of Color in Slaveholding North Carolina: The Andersons of Granville County
- Kayla Holmes on The Lyons and the Landrums: A Tale of Kinship and Murder
- Patricia A. on Free People of Color in Slaveholding North Carolina: The Andersons of Granville County
- Amber Collins on Hot off the Press: Ed Payne’s Article on Sarah Collins
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