THE LOCUS/LOCUST/LOCAS/LUCUS/LUCAS/LUCIE FAMILY A TRUE TRI-RACIAL PEOPLE. THE 3RD LARGEST FREE FAMILY OF THE UPPER SOUTH, THAT TURNED IT UPSIDE DOWN. TRI-RACIAL BLACK IDENTIFIED, BLACK, WHITE AND INDIAN. A long time ago in the 1600s there lived a free tri-racial family of Charles City, New Kent, Henrico, West Moreland, and King George Counties of Virginia. By the 1700s some of them left Virginia and moved to Granville, Halifax, Nash, and Wilson Counties in North Carolina and later to South Carolina. The first mother of the Locus/Lucas family was white from ENGLAND name Elizabeth Lucie; and the first father was AFRICAN AMERICAN and INDIAN born of a WEST AFRICAN father and a NATIVE AMERICAN mother of the KIKOTAN TRIBE of VIRGINIA, his name was John Tann. Because of them and their son John Locus/Lucas born in1665, is why we all exist today as a family. The following tribes are believed to have mixed with the Locus/Lucas family making our blood their blood: Chickahominy, Pamunky, Nansemond, Tuscarora, Croatan, Lumbee and Kikotan. The COPPER, RED BONE, YELLOW, BROWN, LIGHT and BRIGHT skinned free African Americans formed the tri-racial isolates of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio and Tennessee. The Locus/Lucas family had money, real estate, and they could vote, etc. At the beginning they were born of white mothers and into freedom. Their fathers were black, Indian, white, and a mixture of any and all of the three. They were beautiful people, most of them looked a mixture of Indian and white. They were the largest free [non-white] family in Nash County, North Carolina. There were some members that went on to pass as Indian and white. By the late 1920s a lot of them began having children with blacks that werent mixed as they were, and in many cases marrying them. This was not acceptable among families of the time. This indeed would change the face of the family forevermore. Even though they were tri-racial they [would be] identified as black. Most tri-racial families are either black or white identified, although genetically and historically they are tri-racial the blood of three races BLACK, WHITE AND INDIAN. Many of them experienced name calling and much jealousy and felt they were caught between three worlds. The term “Free People of Color” did not pertain only to blacks or those of black/white heritage. But, to tax paying Indians and all other racial minorities that lived in the area. Early census years did not distinguish between blacks, Indians, etc. Instead, races were listed as white or other free people, and slaves. This was the case from 1790-1840. In 1850 the term mulatto replaced free persons or free people of color and free colored persons. April 4, 2014 EUROPE AHMAD FARMER
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:11:41 +0000
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