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|  | | Black Minqua The Life and Times of Henry Green
Black Minqua is about a descendant of Indian/Negroes, Henry Green, his fore-bearers, and community. He was a participant in the Christiana Resistance, an event that changed his life. It was a rebellion seen by some as Treason and others as Justice, which took place on September 11, 1851. The Christiana Resistance, an event in which a White Slave Owner was killed took place in Christiana Pennsylvania. After the Fugitive Slave Act, Slave-owners and Federal Marshal's joined forces to capture slaves, even in the North. On the last day of his life, Slave Owner, Edward Gorsuch knocked on the wrong door, and the ensuing encounter pushed Henry Green and his community into the History books.
p style="text-align: left;"> Henry Green and his for-bearers were remnants of Native/Negroes living in area known as the Welsh Mountains in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Europeans on first Contact conferred the name, Black Minqua on Natives. In the 1700’s Tom and Joseph Green were clearing lands under a warrant issued by the State. The story of the Green men is an American story, one in which a community struggles to live surrounded by repression.
p style="text-align: left;"> On September 11, 1851, Henry stepped in to | |  | | Minqua Unami Okehocking & The Down River Nations
The Native People of the North and Southeastern United States were displaced by Any Means Necessary. This is a book that seeks to clarify the history of the Natives whose land and lives were stolen.
span style="font-weight: 700;">The Minqua Unami Okehocking & The Down River Nations is historical in that those who here when Europeans arrived are centered. Ms. Wills documented her family history that spans thousands of years back to Spain in Europe Mali in Africa and Columbia South America. In the pages of Minqua Unami Okehocking is a continuation of the history and historical figures entangled in her lines. Minqua Unami Ockehocking & The Down River Nations tells of the Indigenous People who occupied the North and Southeastern regions of what is now America. /span>
| |  | | Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color
Notes and documents is 292 pages, with Table of contents, Appendix, Bibliography, Endnotes, and Index. The book chronicles the lives of a group labled, "Free Persons of Color", in Colonial Virginia. They were mixed raced, Native, African, and Whites, whose were Virginia's own Creole Population.
One of the chronicles is of Mary Bowden, who was the Mulatto granddaughter of a white man, William Monroe, the grandfather of President James Monroe. For over forty years she was an Indentured Servant to George Washington's family, at what is now George Washington Birthplace Virginia. At the time Mary was there the Plantation was called, Popes' Creek.
Charles and Ambrose Lewis were brothers, who served in the Revolutionary War out of Fredericksburg. They were the sons of a white man, John Lewis and a Mulatto woman. The brothers served first as Seamen, and then as Soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
BOOK ONE
IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY
On September 20, 2001, our family gathered at the Church of Christ in Coatesville Pennsylvania, for my mother, Vivian Baxter’s funeral. Mom was seventy-eight years of age when she passed, and had suffered with heart attacks, over a course of several years. It is difficult to see a parent age, and especially difficult to watch as they deteriorate, mentally and physically.
In April of 1998, my mother had a stroke, and heart attack, which could have been fatal. However, a Heart Specialist was able to save her life, at least for a w | |  | | Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family
The history of an African American Family, and it's diversity. A narrative of the authors ancestors, who were mixed raced Native/White/African.
Follow the author as she goes on a journey of self discovery, and learns about her family history. The author details the lives and history of her ancestors who lived extraordinary lives. They resided throughout Colonial Pennsylvania and Virginia, as well as in the surrounding areas. They were natives who resided in Eastern Pennsylvania, Free Blacks and slaves who were brought from Africa, and Europeans who owned slaves. Throughout the book the achievements of these people are Chronicled.
One ancestor, Elijah Johnson was born in Vir |
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