Wednesday, December 08, 2021

NEW NARRATIVE #20: Christian Priber, the Western Cherokee and Early Utopian Communism

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{Graphic: Painting of Cherokee 'Kingdom of Paradise' town.] Christian Priber is not a name we’re likely to come across in the standa...
Monday, December 06, 2021

New Narrative #19: Jemmy, the Stono Rebellion, and Fort Mose in La Florida

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[Graphic: Portrayal of the Stono Revolt] Jemmy was an enslaved worker in 1739 colonial South Carolina. As best as we know, he was born in th...

New Narrative #18: Where Are We So Far?

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[Graphic Mound-builder village of Native people in Florida.] This series has provoked a bit of interest, as well as a few questions. What ar...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

NEW NARRATIVE #17: The Susquehannocks, the Retreat of France and the Paxton Boys

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The Susquehannocks were a native people occupying what is now central Pennsylvania, and the river flowing through there into the Chesapeake...

NEW NARRATIVE #16: Early New York’s Waterfront Dives, the Emerging Atlantic Proletariat, and the Defeat of a 1741 Working-Class, both Slave, Native and ‘Free,’ Attempting to Put ‘the Bottom Rail on Top’

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In 1741, dozens of free and enslaved men of modest or no means, and a few women, all multiracial and multinational, had gathered many times ...
Monday, November 15, 2021

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NEW NARRATIVE #15 Albemarle democracy, the Tuscarora War, and growing slavery in what became North and South Carolina Graphic: Storming of t...
Monday, November 08, 2021

NEW NARRATIVE #14: The Tuscarora, Quakers, and Early Battles over Slavery

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Long before Europeans and their 'great canoes' started to occupy and trade along the seacoast of Turtle Island, the Tuscarora people...
Tuesday, November 02, 2021

NEW NARRATIVE #13 The Apalachee, DeSoto's Violent Slave Catching, and the Fate of Spanish Carolina.

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The Apalachee were a native people who had made their home in the southern woodlands near the eastern edge of what is now called the Gulf of...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

NEW NARRATIVE #12: The Lenape, William Penn and 'Culture Clashes'

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The southern Lenni Lenape lived in the watershed of the large river flowing into a major bay, both now called the Delaware. Several other ri...