discussions of multiracial families and communities from the Mississippi Piney Woods and North Carolina Piedmont
“The State of Mississippi vs. Davis Knight” (1948): A Wolverine Theatrics Production! by Vikki Bynum I am delighted to announce that Playwright Marcus France and Producing Director Nathaniel Quinn have recreated the […]
By Vikki Bynum In October, 1868, and August, 1869, Rep. Cuffee Mayo of Granville County, North Carolina, gathered with a group of mostly mixed-race men to sign petitions
By Vikki Bynum Late last year, I was contacted by Raymont Hawkins-Jones, a descendant of a family I’d written about many years earlier: the Andersons of Granville County, North Carolina. The Andersons […]
By Chuck Shoemake In the dark fens of the Dismal Swamp The hunted Negro lay; He saw the fire of the midnight camp, And heard at times a horse’s tramp […]
While perusing the Internet, I recently discovered the following 2012 essay by Daniele Watts, whose name I recognized as the actor who played the slave Coco in the movie Django Unchained. I […]
By Victoria Bynum Some time ago, I posted an essay about the Ku Klux Klan’s terrorization of Orange County, North Carolina, in the years following the Civil War. Recently, I recovered from […]
The following guest essay by Wayne K. Driver expands upon my own research on the Morris Family of Gloucester County, Virginia. Vikki Bynum, Moderator By Wayne K. Driver Throughout my years of […]
By Vikki Bynum Here’s another region of the South with a fascinating history of mixed-race ancestry. I discovered the Chowan Discovery Group after Steven Riley, creator and moderator of Mixed Race Studies, […]
Some time ago, in response to my 10 November 2011 post, “Free People of Color in Old Virginia: The Morris Family of Gloucester County,” (which I encourage you to read or reread) I […]
“Always the Gentleman”: Senator Blanche K. Bruce and Newt Knight’s Relief Bill of 1880 By Ed Payne It’s unlikely that United States Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce of Mississippi ever met Newt Knight, the […]
Renegade South 