{"id":36165,"date":"2014-04-04T00:14:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T00:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36165"},"modified":"2014-04-05T01:34:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:34:27","slug":"the-robbins-family-at-war-with-marvin-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36165","title":{"rendered":"The Robbins Family at War with Marvin Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Robbins Family at War with Marvin Jones<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Research at the National Archives and Beyond<\/a>
\nBlogTalk Radio<\/a>
\nThursday, 2014-04-03, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-04-04, 01:00Z)<\/p>\n

Bernice Bennett<\/strong><\/a>, Host<\/p>\n

Marvin T. Jones<\/strong><\/a>, Executive Director
\nChowan Discovery Group<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Robbins Family at War” – it is about a Native American family who lived through colonial wars of the 17th and 18th centuries, and finally emerged victorious in the Civil War<\/a> as a part of the mixed-race community. Five members served in the U.S. Colored Troops<\/a>. Three fought from Suffolk, Virginia<\/a> to Richmond<\/a> and helped enforce Juneteenth<\/a>. Two served in Florida<\/a> and South Carolina<\/a>. After the war, they served in North Carolina<\/a>\u00a0legislature, invented and founded schools and churches.<\/p>\n

Marvin T. Jones is the executive director of the Chowan Discovery Group<\/a>, whose mission is to research, document, preserve and present the history of the mixed-race land-owning people of the Hertford County<\/a> area in northeast North Carolina. The CDG has produced many articles, lectures, historical markers, a stage production and several video documentaries. Marvin lives in Washington, D.C.<\/a> and is a native of Cofield, North Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\n