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A Freeborn Community’s Response to the Civil War and Beyond

May 4, 2019 by Marvin Jones Leave a Comment

This presentation is about a century-old community of freeborn landowners and their contributions in and after the Civil War. A year after the Confederates seized a mixed race, married mother of three and used her as a lure, her Winton Triangle community responded by enlisting in the Union military. Over seventy of North Carolina’s Winton Triangle men fought in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.  They took part in the destruction of Charleston, captured what was to become Gen. Grant’s ultimate headquarters, took part in the eleven-month siege on Richmond and its capture; and finally enforced the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas after the war’s end (Juneteenth).

Families of soldiers helped make up of the regiments of infantry, cavalry and heavy artillery.  Families such as the Weavers, Robbins and Reynolds could each boast seven and more soldiers.

Most returned to the area to own farms, start or renew family life, establish schools, educate the formerly enslaved, form churches and other organizations, take part in politics, open businesses and expand the size of the Winton Triangle. This presentation, highlighting the research of the soldiers’ pension records, their family records and photographs, is used to teach today’s Winton Triangle people of their own Civil War past.

Rock Park Civil War Roundtable talks are  usually followed by lunch at Ledo Pizza, 7435 Georgia Avenue NW.

Tagged With: 2nd Cavalry USCT, Augustus Robbins, Augustus Robbins USCT, Chowan Discovery Group, Marvin T. Jones, Parker D. Robbins, Parker David Robbins; Duplin County; Highway Historical Marker; Winton Triangle; Paula Sanderlin, Pleasant Plains Baptist Church, Pleasant Plains School, Winton Triangle

Winton Triangle Soldiers on the Wall of the African American Civil War Memorial

March 4, 2018 by Marvin Jones Leave a Comment

As an offering for the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, Chowan Discovery  is hosting a tour of the African American Civil War Museum and the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, D.C.  On the Memorial’s wall of 200, 000 names, each attendee will search for a Winton Triangle soldier after given a card with the name and a profile of the soldier.  We will lunch afterwards at Washington’s most famous eatery, Ben’s Chili Bowl.  Here is more information.

 

Tagged With: 2nd Cavalry USCT, Augustus Robbins, Chowan Discovery Group, Marvin T. Jones, Parker D. Robbins, Parker David Robbins; Duplin County; Highway Historical Marker; Winton Triangle; Paula Sanderlin, Winton Triangle

Winton Triangle Presentation in Tappahannock, VA

November 12, 2016 by Marvin Jones Leave a Comment

Marvin T. Jones presents photographs, maps and narrative of his community’s 275 year-old history of landowning mixed-race people in North Carolina’s Hertford County area.  The written history of the Winton Triangle begin in 1584 when the English first learn about the area.  The three main towns of the Triangle are Winton, Cofield and Ahoskie. The Winton Triangle’s story is that of a new people who cobbled success and identity despite colonization, wars, slavery and discrimination.

Hosted by the Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Virginia.

Tagged With: 2nd Cavalry USCT, Augustus Robbins, Calvin Scott Brown, Carolina Genesis, Chowan Discovery Group, Chowanoke, Lemuel Washington Boon, Marvin T. Jones, Parker D. Robbins, Parker David Robbins; Duplin County; Highway Historical Marker; Dr. Martin Luther King, Parker David Robbins; Duplin County; Highway Historical Marker; Winton Triangle; Paula Sanderlin, Roanoke Island, Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, Winton Triangle

Winton Triangle’s Civil War presentation

September 20, 2016 by Marvin Jones Leave a Comment

Learn about role a rural community of color played during the Civil War. As part of Dr. C.R. Gibbs’ annual African American history lectures series at the Greenbelt MD Public Library, Marvin T. Jones presents with words and images the Winton Triangle’s successful efforts to keep American whole and to defeat slavery.  Serving from Virginia to Texas, many were from families of soldiers.  You will hear about their cause, challenges, escapes, victories and their lives – and what they created with their new freedoms after the war.

Tagged With: 2nd Cavalry USCT, Augustus Robbins, Chowan Discovery Group, Civil War re-enactors, Parker D. Robbins, Parker David Robbins; Duplin County; Highway Historical Marker; Dr. Martin Luther King, Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, Winton Triangle

A Chowanoke History – the Winton Triangle’s First People

February 28, 2016 by Marvin Jones Leave a Comment

The Chowanoke Nation was the largest of the Algonkian nations in North Carolina.  The English encountered them in 1586 – one year before the arrival of the Lost Colony and 21 years before the settlement of Jamestown.  CDG’s Marvin T. Jones will give this presentation near the site of Chowanoke capital of Choanoac at Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church of Harrellsville.  It was Mt. Pleasant’s congregation who hosted the unveiling of the NC Highway Historical Marker in 2011.

Chowan Discovery thanks Reverend Roosevelt Askew for this event.  Please see these links about for information about the Chowanoke Nation, the Chowanoke Reseveration Fund and the Chowanoke Descendants Community.

 

Tagged With: Augustus Robbins, Chowan Discovery Group, Chowanoke, lars Adams, Parker D. Robbins, Parker David Robbins; Duplin County; Highway Historical Marker; Dr. Martin Luther King, Parker David Robbins; Duplin County; Highway Historical Marker; Winton Triangle; Paula Sanderlin, Winton Triangle

A Chowanoke History – told along Ancestral Waters

September 19, 2015 by Marvin Jones Leave a Comment

North Carolina’s Gates County was part of the Chowanoke Native American nation when first reported in 1584.  In Gates, beside the ancestral waters of Merchant’s Mill Pond, Chowan Discovery will present a history of the Chowanoke people, the largest of the Carolina Algonkian peoples.  The presentation includes images of maps, documents and photographs.  Hosted by the Roanoke-Chowan Native American Association.

Tagged With: 2nd Cavalry USCT, Augustus Robbins, Chowan Discovery Group, Chowanoke, Parker D. Robbins, Parker David Robbins; Duplin County; Highway Historical Marker; Dr. Martin Luther King, Parker David Robbins; Duplin County; Highway Historical Marker; Winton Triangle; Paula Sanderlin, Winton Triangle

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