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African American Digital Bookshelf
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Author
Publisher
E.H. Gray
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
[108] p. : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert L. Herbin was born in 1872 in North Carolina. His parents were Rufus Herbin and Sina. He married Sallye Matilda Mark, daughter of William Mark and Priscilla Hooper. They had eleven children. Their daughter Lila Priscilla married Arthur Garner and they had four children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina. Includes Gray, Floyd and related families.
Author
Publisher
M.E.T. Fountain
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
iv, 180 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports.
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Taylor (d.ca.1820) lived in Halifax County, North Carolina. Descendants lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, Washington and elsewhere.
Author
Publisher
C.L. Gray
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 v. : ill. (some col.), facsims., geneal. tables, ports.
Language
English
Description
Ira Sanky Gray, son of Jerry Gray and Roxanne Smitherman and grandson of Charles Gray and Jane Gray 1824-1919), was born 10 March 1878. He married Daisy Watkins (1879-1960), daughter of Julius Watkins and Dora Pitts 26 September 1898 in Guilford County, North Carolina. They had nine children. Ira died 24 May 1962. Includes Evans, Spears, Walker, Wright and related families.
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 x 16 cm (10 x 7 in).
Language
English
Description
"In North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as 'negroes,' 'mulattoes,' 'mustees,' 'Indians,' 'mixed-bloods,' or simply 'free people of color.' From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these nonenslaved residents, from prohibiting their testimony against whites to barring...
Author
Publisher
S.J. Callahan
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
ix, 235 p. : facsims., ports.
Language
English
Description
William Harrison Boone, also known as Shoate, was the son of Henderson Boone, an Afro-American slave who lived in North Carolina. Henderson married Lydia Taylor, another slave. Their children included William Harrison, Henrietta and Clara. William Harrison Boone's children were Betty, William, Herman, Maude, Daisy, James, George, Willie and Gordon.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
xiii, 451 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations,...
Author
Series
Years of transition volume I
Publisher
Duplin County Historical Foundation
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
[12], 692 p. : 1 map.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
V.M. Herron
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill., geneal. tables, ports.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richard Herron was born in about 1810 in Steel Creek Township, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He married Minerva in about 1843. They had eleven children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina.
Author
Publisher
Warwick House Pub
Pub. Date
c1990, c1999
Physical Desc
2 v.
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Warren (ca.1635-a.1691) lived in Old Rappahannock County, Virginia (he was not the John Warren in Westmoreland County). Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and elsewhere.
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