discussions of multiracial families and communities from the Mississippi Piney Woods and North Carolina Piedmont
I am delighted with the cover designed by University of North Carolina Press for The Long Shadow of the Civil War, forthcoming February 2010. The cover’s shadowy figures and shrouded landscape not only suggest the enduring importance of place, family, and kinship in the South, […]
When Steve Tatum recently contacted me about his Knight ancestors (see here), I assumed we would quickly locate a link between his branch and that of Jones County. There were two key similarities: the appearance […]
Last month, Renegade South posted a query from Lea Worth, an Austrialian Ainsworth seeking to link her international ancestors to the American Ainsworths. Then, just a few days ago, I received the following email […]
UPDATE, Sept. 26, 2009: Please note below that I have corrected the time of Jon’s presentation from 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm. One of my favorite writers, Jonathan Odell, will give a presentation on his various […]
Another Knight descendent has weighed in on the identities of the two women portrayed in my earlier post, “Who are These Women.” Dorothy Knight Marsh identifies the woman on the left in that photo as Anna Knight, born […]
Rachel Knight by Sondra Yvonne Bivins Rachel’s Children Fathered by Jesse Davis Knight Slaves had few legal rights, least of all to marry and have children. Just two years after arriving […]
RACHEL KNIGHT BY SONDRA YVONNE BIVINS Rachel Knight was about sixteen years old when John “Jackie” Knight of Covington County, MS, came into possession of her in the spring of 1856. Rachel […]
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