Fathers, Farmers, Fighters Leaders: The Robbins Family at War (Civil War Roundtable of the Rock Creek Nature Center)

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

…And I think with racial issues in the country, historical memory has really played to serve the ends of White Privilege, essentially. And it has done so in any number of ways. The most basic to start with, is simply we have as a nation erased essentially from any of our larger memory the racial complexity of the country. That this has been a racially mixed country from the very beginning. That every racial group has played a really interesting role in constructing and building the country. That there has been racial mixing between groups from the beginning. That race lines have been fluid. And that history of racial mixing, racial contributions just gets lost…

Renee C. Romano, “Multiraciality Is As Old As This Country: Gender, Sexuality & Race Mixing with Professor Renee Romano,” Is That Your Child?, (February 10, 2010): 00:11:30-00:12:21.

Fathers, Farmers, Fighters Leaders: The Robbins Family at War (Civil War Roundtable of the Rock Creek Nature Center)

Fathers, Farmers, Fighters Leaders: The Robbins Family at War (Civil War Roundtable of the Rock Creek Nature Center)

U.S. Park Service
Rock Creek Nature Center
5200 Glover Road, NW
Washington, D.C.
2014-01-04, 09:30 EST (Local Time)

Marvin Jones, Executive Director
Chowan Discovery Group

The Robbinses lived across racial lines and along the borders of slavery. What did six members of this free mixed-race family do when the Civil War came their way? And what was their fate? I get to present their remarkable story, bolstered by research from the National Archives.

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