Author Anita Wills to appear on History on Book TV

[alani2]

My book, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color, is scheduled to Sunday January 29, 2006 on History on Book TV (C-Span2), at 4:45 am est.

Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color, is a book about a mixed raced group labled, fpc, or Free Persons of Color, in colonial Virginia. The presentation was filmed at Central Rappahannock Library, in Fredericksburg Virginia. The presentation focuses is on my ancestors Charles and Ambrose Lewis, who were Free Persons of Color in Colonial Virginia. The segment also briefly discusses DNA, and how it was used in my research.

Following is a link to the C-span site.
Anita Wills - History on Book TV:
http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=6104&schedID=398

[Deirdre]

I happened upon some of your work "The Buffalo Ridge Cherokees: Remnants of a Great Nation Divided" and found possible links to my personal ancestry in it. I thank you a million times over for it. It's made a profound difference in my life.

Deirdre

[alani2]

Deidre,
I am pleased that you are finding answers to your quest. Dr. Horace Rice, is the author of Buffalo Ridge Cherokee, and I believe it has been reprinted. You can also contact the United Cherokee Indian Tribe in Amherst County, and they will assist you in your research.

[roca]

I noticed on the website of the United Cherokee
Indian Tribe of Virginia (Amherst CO) that one of
the tribal council members is Horace Rice.Is he the same person who wrote the book on the Buffalo Ridge Cherokee?

Are the United Cherokee and the Buffalo Ridge
Cherokee the same ethnicity?

Roca

[Deirdre]

I believe so. It looks like there is a strong possibility that there is NDN on both sides of my Virginia roots. My mother and her people are from Madison Heights and so are my father's father's people. Different surnames. The couldron is heating up! When i was at the Monacan State park looking out onto the water, the thought of the graves disturbed by T. Jefferson made me suddenly sad. My heart bled for them for a moment. Then i lifted my eyes to the sky and reminded myself that in all things there is a higher meaning.
-Deirdre

[alani2]

[QUOTE=alani2;17011]My book, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color, is scheduled to Sunday January 29, 2006 on History on Book TV (C-Span2), at 4:45 am est.

Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color, is a book about a mixed raced group labeled, fpc, or Free Persons of Color, in colonial Virginia. A presentation of my book signing was filmed and presented by C-Span's Book TV in 2005. The Presentation covers the research and writing of my first book, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color. Since then I have written a second book, Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family. I believe some folks were put off, because I referred to Natives as, The FFA (First Families of America).

I recently discovered the C-span Video online and am adding a link here.

Following is a link to the C-span site.
Anita Wills - History on Book TV:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/188914-1