The Hidden Origins of Tri-Racial Americans

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]This is just illustrating uh some of what I was talking about. So, we've talked about Eastern North Carolina.

[00:00:05]We've talked about exploration. We've talked about the English making efforts to try to plant a colony at Roanoke. We all know that that colony failed. Uh many of you didn't know about the fact that there were Africans left there as well. But, what this map illustrates is as Virginia and then of course when the English come back in 1607, they attempt to set up a settlement in Jamestown, which is successful. And from Jamestown, they begin to expand you know, north, west, and south uh back into North Carolina where they had failed to really get a foothold um for quite a few years earlier.

[00:00:39]This map illustrates after the passage of the laws to change um you know, who could be considered a slave or who could be put into indentured servitude uh to Africans and making Africans basically slaves for the rest of their natural lives, many of these mixed-race people, they're already biracial and tri-racial, Indian and Indian, Indian, black, and white uh flee Virginia and move down into Eastern North Carolina uh particularly in Bertie County where a lot of the earliest settlers of Bertie County were mixed-race people who settled in Bertie County with the Tuscarora Indians. That region down there was uh controlled by the Tuscarora. There were Meherrins to their north as you see on this map. To the west, there were Meherrins and of course there were Nottoways uh in Virginia just on the border uh with the settlements.

[00:01:30]So, and again, the Nottoways, the Meherrins, and the Tuscaroras are all Iroquois. They're all in military alliance.

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