{"id":29735,"date":"2013-03-20T21:53:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T21:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29735"},"modified":"2016-07-10T23:19:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T23:19:40","slug":"the-chowan-discovery-group-documenting-the-mixed-race-history-of-north-carolina%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cwinton-triangle%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29735","title":{"rendered":"The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina\u2019s \u201cWinton Triangle\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina\u2019s \u201cWinton Triangle\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners<\/a>
\n2013-03-20<\/p>\n

Vikki Bynum<\/a><\/strong>, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History
\nTexas State University, San Marcos<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another region of the South with a fascinating history of mixed-race ancestry. I discovered the Chowan Discovery Group<\/a> after Steven Riley<\/a>, creator and moderator of MixedRaceStudies.org<\/a>, introduced me via email to the Group\u2019s Executive Director, Marvin T. Jones<\/a>. The \u201cWinton Triangle,\u201d located in Hertford County, North Carolina<\/a>, encompasses the three towns of Winton<\/a>, Cofield<\/a>, and Ahoskie<\/a>. Here, people maintain a distinctive identity rooted in Native American, European, and African ancestry.<\/p>\n

According to Marvin Jones, the Triangle traces its origins to before the 1584 arrival of the English to the Outer Banks<\/a> of North Carolina<\/a>, where Chowanoke (Choanoac) Indian settlements were prominent along the Chowan River<\/a>. After the English invasion, diseases (to which Native Americans lacked immunity) and territorial disputes decimated and disrupted the Chowanoke settlements of present-day Hertford County…<\/p>\n

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The Chowan Discovery Group: Documenting the Mixed-Race History of North Carolina\u2019s \u201cWinton Triangle\u201d Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2013-03-20 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos Here\u2019s another region of the South with a fascinating history of mixed-race ancestry. I discovered the Chowan Discovery Group after Steven Riley, creator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,3015,20],"tags":[11282,8279,879,13966,2317,2727,2729,2728,1453,1454,14118,12682],"class_list":["post-29735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-chowan-discovery-group","tag-marvin-t-jones","tag-north-carolina","tag-renegade-south","tag-renegade-south-histories-of-unconventional-southerners","tag-steve-riley","tag-steven-f-riley","tag-steven-riley","tag-victoria-bynum","tag-victoria-e-bynum","tag-vikki-bynum","tag-winton-triangle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48195,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29735\/revisions\/48195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}