Photo Blog: Cumbo Reunion July 15, 2016
On July 15-17, over 200 Cumbo descendants gathered from across the nation and around the world in Williamsburg, VA for our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion. Here are ...
Tag: African American
Family History Etched in my DNA
The Science section of the New York Times published a wonderful article this weekend titled Tales of African-American History Found in DNA. The article details...
Cumbos as Free People of Color
If I were to ask you, “Who were free people of color in America?” how would you answer? If you were to survey say 100 Americans with a reasonable gr...
Were the Cumbos Melungeon?
The origins of the American Melungeon have always been considered mysterious. Melungeons are generally known as a group of families from relatively unknown but ...
The Cumbos as mixed race people
According to Tim Hashaw’s book “The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown”: The African Cumbo family...
My Ancestral Pilgrimage to Northampton, NC
My Cumbo ancestors settled into Northampton County, North Carolina at the turn of the Nineteenth Century. Here is a travelogue of my trip to Northampton in Oct...
The Origins of Emanuell Cambow
Tim Hashaw in his book “The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown” makes reference to the orig...
Emanuell Cambow of Jamestown, VA
Here is what we know about Emanuell Cambow based on the book “Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware...