The Untold History of Black People

 

 Mark E. Brown, LMSW

From the birth of the United States until 1923, my mother’s family gathered together, intermarried, and lived in one of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s free unions. Later it was known as Stony Point.  Free Union areas in the Virginia Commonwealth were places where ex-slaves and people of color could live without threat of being recaptured and forced back into slavery. 

Many people including most people in northern states spread the idea that all slaves came from Africa. What most do not know is that African slaves were expensive to transport from Africa to the Caribbean then from the Caribbean to the states. So many slave breading companies bought a few Africans and use them as slave breeders with indigenous men and women creating slaves to sell in the slave market place. Columbus started taking Americans back to Europe in 1493 and selling them to Africans and Europeans. Lucy Blue’s ancestors before they were freed was probably a product of slave breading. If you think about it, why spend all that money to get slaves from Africa when you can get them by passing a law making it legal to capture and enslave anyone that is not European. If you check slave state laws such as in Virginia, you will see that this was the case.

 

John Brown and Lucy Blue married in Free Union Baptist Church and traveled by train to Steelton Pa. They were on their way to Pittsburgh because John Brown heard that the steel mills were hiring. However they ran out of money. My grandfather had to take a job in the Bethlehem Steel Plant in Steelton instead.  They save enough money to buy a home on Third Street in Steelton. That is where they raised their five children. 

Lucy Blue is a descendent of the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee have seven clans and have had that number as long as there has been contact with Europeans. The 7 clans are;

• Wild Potato Clan or occasionally called the "Blind Savannah Clan"

•       Long Hairs or "Twisters”

•       The Deer Clan

•       Bird Clan

•       Wolf Clan

•      The Paint Clan also commonly called the "Red Paint Clan"

•      The Blue Clan or “Blue Holly Clan.”

The "Blue Clan" has a Cherokee name, Anisahoni. The Anisahoni, or Blue Holly Clan, subdivisions were Panther, or Wildcat, and Bear, which probably has an origin of two separate clans that were later consolidated with a third. Historically, this clan produced many people who were able to make special medicines for the children. The medicine were made from a blue plant which is where the clan gained its name. In other words, they were medical doctors and scientist. This 5,000 year old education tradition has been handed down through the generations to present day.

As I did my initial research on this branch of the Brown/Blue Family, it became immediately apparent that they did not consider themselves Black. In fact, when the Black awareness movement was going full blast in the 1960s, the fourth child, David Brown was telling his children and anyone who would listen that they were not Black. The David Brown branch of John and Lucy Brown (to date as a family) are the most educated of this part of the Brown/Blue Clan. 

 This is the Blue Clan pillar in the Cherokee Capital City of Chota 

David Brown's Branch

His wife, Dr. Jackie Jackson was the first (and only to date) in the family that has a Doctorate Degree. Mark and Vida, two of his children have master degrees. Vida’s daughter has a BS and is studying for her master’s Degree.

Mark E. Brown, LMSW has always been interested in his family’s history and how it relates to world history of people of color. You notice I did not say Black because Uncle David just may come after me from the grave. Here is something that Mark sent me about the history of ancient western people of color. I think you should watch this 1 hour video.

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