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DESCRIPTION:Who:   Anita L. Wills, Author, Lecturer, and Historian   When:   Saturday 
 June 12, 2004  Contact:   Anita Wills (510)481-1804   AAMLO-Veda Silva, 
 (510) 637-0204  America is a nation of Laws, and the roots of those laws 
 can be found in Colonial Virginia. It is the states of Presidents, and was 
 known as the Upper South. The slave system in Colonial Virginia, was more 
 psychological than the one in the Deep South, but it was just as deadly.   
 Henings Statutes At large contains many of the raced based laws passed to 
 contain natives, and Africans. Although those laws are no longer on the 
 books, they are still, "Understood", by those in power.  These laws 
 determine who is a full citizen, and whose rights do not have to be 
 respected.   While researching her maternal line in Colonial Virginia, 
 Anita Wills became intimately acquainted with those laws, as they pertained 
 to her Mulatto ancestors. The book Notes And Documents of Free Persons of 
 Color,  gives readers a view into the mindset of our founding fathers, 
 including George Washington, and his family. Notes and Documents is  328 
 pages, Non Fiction, African American History, with appendix, bibliography, 
 index, and endnotes. It is the documented, illustrated, history of 
 Virginia's own Creole population.   The book is a documented chronicle of 
 Four Hundred years of a group labled, "fpc", or Free Persons of Color, by 
 the Fredericksburg Virginia Free Negro Registry. Several of the chronicles 
 involve George Washington, and his family, including the Chapter on Mary 
 Bowden of Popes Creek Plantation.  Mary (born 1730), was a so-called 
 Mulatto Indentured Servant to George Washington's family. She served at the 
 birthplace of George Washington, Popes Creek Plantation from (1737 to about 
 1787).  Her Indenture was forced, and was aimed at the mixed raced 
 offspring of white women. Augustine Washington Senior took Mary to court in 
 Westmoreland County Virginia, where she was adjudged to be seven years old, 
 and Mulatto. While serving her indenture, Mary had several children, who 
 were also subject to the thirty year indentures.   Henry Weincek, Author of 
 the Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White, and An Imperfect God, 
 gave the book an excellent rating. He mentions, the author, and Mary and 
 Patty Bowden in his book, an Imperfect God. Ms. Wills has just completed a 
 successful promotional tour in Pennsylvania.   Ms. Wills will also discuss 
 her film, The Bowdens of Popes Creek, which is scheduled for release in 
 2005. The audience will have a chance to pose questions to Ms. Wills. 
 Copies of the book can be purchased at: http://www.cafepress.com/leboudin 
 ($26.00 + tax and sh).  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/04/30/37703.php
SUMMARY:Descendant of Washington Family Slaves Speaks Out
LOCATION:African American Museum &   Library of Oakland  659 14th Street   Oakland 
 CA 94612
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