...The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner included an entire community involved in resistance efforts that led to, and learned from, what happened. Surviving Southampton rediscovers the enslaved women and children and free people of color who lived in Southampton County...

... McCain John Palin Sarah anti Semitism Copley Frank Barkley Kennedy John F Smith Alfred E difference 2008 presidential campaign white women people of color political culture difference presidential qualifications presidential races “Do I think a woman’ll ever be President? How do I know...

... of these early historians examined the experiences of people of color but often failed to see how their “whiteness” shaped their investigation of the past. Chamber of Commerce Italian colonies consulates denationalization emigrants imagined community Italy Mediterranean South America transnational...

...This chapter focuses on the free Black population of Southampton County, which made up around 20 percent of the county’s total Black population. Free people of color were a definitive feature of Southampton's demography in the antebellum period. Very few free people of color owned their own land...

... Frank Parker James W Vaughn Rebecca Cynthia Worrell Caswell Williams Nancy Bird Turner Cherry Beck or Becky Ben Cherry Jim Musgrave Robert T Parker Solomon court system for free people of color Crathenton Eliza Edwards Benjamin free people of color Henry Artis Billy Francis Nathaniel...

... LeVern Catfish Row drums and drumming Jones John Bush Porgy and Bess Gershwin racial politics people of color Oscar Hammerstein Carmen Jones Georges Bizet exoticism stereotypes blackness black Other Otto Preminger CinemaScope I first met “Miss Jones”(Carmen Jones, that is), a few years ago...

...This chapter introduces each community of African Americans that the book will highlight: enslaved women, free people of color, and Black children and youth. By looking more closely at these overlooked parts of the Black community of Southampton County, the introduction argues that the Southampton...