Author, Anita Wills book, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color, is scheduled to air in an up coming segment of Book TV.
August 21, 2005 (Press Release) --
Author, Anita Baxter Wills book, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color, will be the topic of a segment of C-Spans' Book TV. The segment was filmed on August 11, 2005, at the Central Rappahannock Library in Fredericksburg Virginia.
The book begins in 1950's Pennsylvania, and winds backwards through Colonial Virginia. The first chapter takes place in Chester and Lancaster County Pennsylvania. It is there that Ms. Wills ancestors resided prior to and after the Civil War. In Lancaster County, they were participants in the Christiana Resistance, and joined the Civil War effort. They were part of the Free Black Community in Chester and Lancaster Counties. As the saga winds backwards, the setting changes to Colonial Virginia.
In Colonial Virginia, the chronicles of Charles and Ambrose Lewis take center stage. The brothers joined the Revolutionary War as Seamen, and then fought at the Battle of Camden South Carolina, as Foot Soldiers. Ambrose was injured and taken prisoner, during the battle, and set free after the war.
Other chronicles are of Mary Bowden, who was born in Westmoreland County Virginia, to a Mulatto mother, and a white man. She was Indentured to George Washingtons father, at the age of seven years. Mary's penchant for running away, kept her in servitude almost forty years.
Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color, is African American History, 292 pages, with appendix, index, and endnotes. It is a chronicle of my ancestors, who were Free Persons of Color, prior to the Civil War. The book is available through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Border Books, in Chester County.
Besides the segment to be aired on C-Span, an interview was filmed, for the Central Rappahannock Library, CD ROM series. The air dates for Book TV, will be posted to the C-Span website, and the News media. For further information, please contact Book TV at, http://www.booktv.org/, or Anita Wills at, alani2@yahoo.com
The book begins in 1950's Pennsylvania, and winds backwards through Colonial Virginia. The first chapter takes place in Chester and Lancaster County Pennsylvania. It is there that Ms. Wills ancestors resided prior to and after the Civil War. In Lancaster County, they were participants in the Christiana Resistance, and joined the Civil War effort. They were part of the Free Black Community in Chester and Lancaster Counties. As the saga winds backwards, the setting changes to Colonial Virginia.
In Colonial Virginia, the chronicles of Charles and Ambrose Lewis take center stage. The brothers joined the Revolutionary War as Seamen, and then fought at the Battle of Camden South Carolina, as Foot Soldiers. Ambrose was injured and taken prisoner, during the battle, and set free after the war.
Other chronicles are of Mary Bowden, who was born in Westmoreland County Virginia, to a Mulatto mother, and a white man. She was Indentured to George Washingtons father, at the age of seven years. Mary's penchant for running away, kept her in servitude almost forty years.
Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color, is African American History, 292 pages, with appendix, index, and endnotes. It is a chronicle of my ancestors, who were Free Persons of Color, prior to the Civil War. The book is available through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Border Books, in Chester County.
Besides the segment to be aired on C-Span, an interview was filmed, for the Central Rappahannock Library, CD ROM series. The air dates for Book TV, will be posted to the C-Span website, and the News media. For further information, please contact Book TV at, http://www.booktv.org/, or Anita Wills at, alani2@yahoo.com
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