Fugitive Communities in Colonial America

by Michael Kolhoff

excerpt :

"In the 17th century, the settlers of Jamestown described the "tawny half-breeds" they encountered in the forests, who strangely preferred the freedom of the wilderness to the safety and comfort of Jamestown. Who were these people, these "half-breeds"? Theories as to the identity of this people range from the romantic (the survivors of the Roanoke colony) to the fantastic (the descendants of early Viking, Welsh or Phoenician settlers). In fact, they were members of fugitive (also called maroon) communities that existed on the outskirts of European settlement from the earliest days of colonization."

Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, And South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820" by Paul Heinegg

This book is a must for genealogy.

Book Description

The recipient of the American Society of Genealogists' prestigious Donald Lines Jacobus Award for the best work of genealogical scholarship published between 1991 and 1994, Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia is, arguably, the greatest achievement in black genealogy ever published. The new third edition not only updates its illustrious predecessor but is 130 pages longer, treating nearly 300 free African American families and 12,000 individuals of the early national period of U.S. history.



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