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by Morgan Jerkins

as freed slaves, 158

  land allotment of, 162, 163–64, 189

  in Oklahoma, 155–205

  skin color of, 156, 195

  as slaves, 160

  Navarre, Evelyn Jewell Regis (great-aunt), 112–15, 113, 135, 205

  Navarre, Gwen, 115, 135–36

  Navarre, Henry, 113, 114–15

  Navarre, Jean-Baptiste, 113

  near-drowning, 23, 24, 49

  The Negro Motorist Green Book, 211

  “Never Say Never” (song), 211

  New Albion, 210

  New Orleans, 113, 210

  Newtonville, 51–52, 75

  New Year’s Eve, 14–15, 17

  Niggaz Wit Attitudes (N.W.A.), 228

  Nigger Heaven, 33

  North Carolina

  Cherokee in, 191

  Sandhills of, 201–3

  Northup, Solomon, 101–2

  N.W.A. (Niggaz Wit Attitudes), 228

  Obama, Barack, 65, 132

  O’Brien, Jean, 186

  Ocean, Frank, 29

  oil, 180–81

  Okefenokee Swamp, 169

  Oklahoma, 155–205. See also Cherokee; specific locations

  bootleggers in, 213

  okra, 16, 19, 22

  One Drop (Broyard, B.), 115

  one-drop rule, 100–101, 162

  Organization of Afro-American Unity, 224

  Osborne, Lane, 174

  Osborne, Sam, 173, 174, 177, 178, 181

  Osborne-Sampson, LeEtta, 170–82, 204

  Our Mother of Mercy, 98, 100, 125, 129

  Owens, William, 70

  owls, 54

  Oya (African deity), 139

  Pacific Ocean, 211

  Pantaleo, Joe, 236–37

  Parham, Charles F., 53

  Parker, William, 214–15

  PCB. See polychlorinated biphenyl

  Peazant, Nana, 22

  Peazant, Viola, 22

  Penn Center, 65–68

  Pentecostal Church, 51, 53–54, 70, 105–6

  phenotypes, 100, 117, 186, 242

  Philadelphia, 75, 78

  Pinckney, Amy, 59–61, 63

  Pinckney, Charles, 60

  Pinckney, Roger, XI, 59–61, 63, 67

  Pittsburgh, 32

  plantations, 17, 18, 47

  on Butler Island, 42–45

  Hampton Point, 31

  on Hilton Head Island, 79–80

  Keystone, 146, 148

  Melrose, 58, 108, 120, 121, 122–23, 125, 128, 148

  Sea Pines, 79, 84, 85

  plat-eyes, 61

  police. See also Los Angeles Police Department

  killings by, 236–37

  polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), 38

  Pomona, 76, 77, 214

  Poole, Lewis, 199

  Prayers for Dark People (DuBois), 22

  premonitions, 54

  Psalms, Book of, 71

  Quinn, Anthony, 128

  Raccoon Bluff, 39

  Raccoon Hogg Community Development Corporation, 38

  rape, 45, 149, 150

  Rappahannock, 192

  Rebel Rousers, 230

  Reconstruction Era National Monument, 65

  Red Bean Project, 33

  Regina (Los Angles woman), 220–25

  Regis (family name), 97, 98, 116, 117

  Regis, Amanda (aunt), 144, 147, 147, 151

  Regis, Angelique, 150, 151

  Regis, James (uncle), 147, 151

  Regis, Maturin, Jr., 151

  Regis, Maturin, Sr., 118, 142, 143, 144–46, 147, 147, 150, 151, 152

  Regis, Maturine, 150, 151

  Regis, Virginia, 147, 151

  restrictive covenants, 216

  Reynolds, R. J., 39

  rice, 18–19, 47, 48

  Robinson, Sherese, 200–201

  Robinson, Stephany. See Dr. Buzzard

  Rochon, Charlotte, 113

  Rochon, Honoré, 113

  Rochon, Rose (great-great-great aunt), 113

  Rockefeller (family name), 202

  Rodríguez Cabrillo, Juan, 210

  Roof, Dylann, 244

  root doctors, 55–57, 58, 59, 60, 64–65, 67–69, 70

  rootwork, 11, 50–60, 64, 69, 70, 245

  sachet powder, 59–60, 70

  Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, 148

  Saint Augustine Church, 125–29

  Saint Helena Island, 64, 65

  Saint Martin Parish (Saint Martinville), 106–7, 114, 141–52

  Saint Simons Island, 22, 30–31

  salt marshes, 32, 36

  Saltwater Geechee, 34

  Sapelo Island, 32–41

  cemetery on, 36–38, 41

  Department of Natural Resources on, 38, 39, 40, 46

  taxes on, 20, 39

  Sasakwa, 171, 176

  sassafras, 56, 128

  Schley, William, 196

  Schweig, Eric, 156

  SCLC. See Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  Scott, Taiwan, 79–83, 85–87, 89

  Scott, Walter, 237

  seafood, 19, 23, 81

  Sea Islands, 18, 19, 30, 35, 68. See also specific islands

  Sea Pines Plantation, 79, 84, 85

  segregation, 31–32. See also Jim Crow

  in Atlantic City, 25, 216

  in Los Angeles, 215–16

  in Louisiana, 102–3

  Seminole, 160

  Cherokee and, 203–4

  freedmen of, 171–84

  hiding in Everglades by, 201

  kinship groups (clans) of, 176, 180

  land allotment of, 162

  oil of, 180–81

  slaves and, 169–70

  Seminole Baptist Church, 176, 177

  Seymour, William J., 53

  Shell Hammock, 39

  shut-mouth special, 67

  Singleton, John, 212, 228

  La Siréne (African deity), 139

  skin color, 2. See also blackness

  of Creole, 105, 131–35

  of Native Americans, 156, 195

  slaves

  of African Americans, 127

  as alligator bait, 43

  auctions for, 31

  buried under Highway 17, 21, 42

  of Cherokees, 203, 204

  in Lowcountry, 18–19

  merchants of, 30

  mortality rate on, 44

  Native Americans as, 160

  on plantations, 18, 42–45

  on Sapelo Island, 33

  Seminole and, 169–70

  swimming by, 27

  transatlantic trade in, 28, 48, 211

  whippings of, 45–46

  Smalls, Victoria, 64, 65–71, 73

  Smithers, Gregory P., 168

  Song of Solomon (Morrison), 246

  soul food, 12–17

  Soul Food (Miller), 12–13

  South Carolina. See also Lowcountry

  Cherokee in, 191

  Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 65

  South Pasadena, 215

  Spalding, Thomas, 30, 33, 39

  Spalding Mansion, 39

  Spanish moss, 33

  speaking in tongues (glossolalia), 53

  spirits (loas), 57, 138

  Spookhunters, 230

  St. Denis, Louis Juchereau de, 107, 149

  St. Denis, Pierre Antoine Juchereau de, 148

  Steel Magnolias (movie), 119

  Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones (Bird), 63

  Stopper (Seminole man), 177–79, 181

  St. Simon’s Island, 35

  Studi, Wes, 156

  succession records, 143–44

  Sunday dinner, 16–17

  sundown towns, 215

  sweet potato, 16, 19

  swimming, 24–29, 31–32

  “Take Me to the Water” (song), 37

  taxes, 20, 39, 171

  Tennessee, 191, 197

  Texas, 12, 211, 213–14. See also Houston

  mass shooting in, 243

  Text
-Aided Archaeology (Little), 44

  tobacco, 18, 124

  touch, 54

  Trail of Tears, 155, 159, 160, 163, 168

  trauma, 27–28, 233–34

  Trump, Donald, 186, 244

  Turner, Ike, 87

  Turner, Tina, 87

  Turpeau, David DeWitt, 113–14, 117, 144–46, 148

  12 Years a Slave (Northup), 102

  Twelve Tribes of Israel, 169

  Untangling Red, White, and Black Heritage (Davis, D.), 186

  Up from the Cane-Brakes (Turpeau, D.), 113–14, 144–45

  uppityness, 103–4, 117, 220

  Van Buren, Martin, 196

  Vann, George Musgrove, 163

  Vann, James, 162–63, 203

  Vann, Jesse, 199

  Vann, Marilyn, 162–67, 170, 195, 199, 203

  Vann, Samuel, Sr., 203

  veve, 57–58

  Voices of Our Nation’s Arts Foundation (VONA), 134

  Voodoo, 57

  ancestor altar of, 137–39

  Christianity and, 136

  of Creole, 136–39

  “Wade in the Water” (song), 37

  Walker (surname), 33

  Walker, Cindy, 191

  Walkingstick, David, 166–67

  Wanderer (slave ship), 30

  Warfield, Marsha, 28

  Warren, Elizabeth, 186

  Warren G, 229

  Washington, George, 159

  watchnight service, 14, 14n

  water, 11, 12, 23–26, 31–32, 48–49, 245

  food from, 29–30

  to freedom, 37

  Gullah Geechee on, 29–30, 34

  in Louisiana, 104, 138

  rootwork and, 69

  on Sapelo Island, 38

  watermelon, 16, 19

  Watson, Crys, 241–42

  Watts Riots, 218–19, 235–36

  Weeping Time, 31

  Wewoka, 180–81, 212

  whippings, of slaves, 45–46

  Whipping Tree, of Seminole, 172, 179–80, 181

  Wiggins, Gladys (great-grandmother), 51, 62, 73–74, 75

  Wiggins, Gwen Davis, 194–97

  Wiggins, Mitchell, 199

  Wiggins, Peggie, 197, 197–200

  Wiggins, Randall, Sr., 194–98, 196, 198, 199, 204

  Wiggins, Winnie, 194–95, 197, 198, 199, 204

  Williams, A. Wilberforce, 15–16

  witchcraft, 50, 53

  women

  in kitchen, 14

  of Seminole, 172

  slaves, 45–46

  witchcraft of, 50

  Woods Memorial Bridge, 68

  Wylie, H., 55

  X, Malcolm, 224

  Yehuda, Rachel, 27

  York (slave ship), 30

  Young, Tiffany, 19–21, 23, 29–48, 64

  Zimmer, Carl, 28

  zooters, 229

  Zoot Suit Riots, 229

  zydeco, 107

  About the Author

  MORGAN JERKINS is a senior editor at Medium’s ZORA magazine. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, Vogue, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Elle, Rolling Stone, Lenny Letter, and BuzzFeed, among many other outlets. She lives in New York.

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  Also by Morgan Jerkins

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  * The watchnight service is a New Year’s Eve tradition for many Christian denominations, such as Methodists, Anglicans, and Pentecostals. In African American communities, it is said that enslaved blacks gathered in churches on New Year’s Eve in 1862 to wait for the Emancipation Proclamation to go into effect on that January 1, 1863. This tradition is still carried on to this day.

 

 

 


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