in episode 4 of Outer Banks, they have grabbed this historian& #39;s undivided attentionhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="‼" title="Double exclamation mark" aria-label="Emoji: Double exclamation mark"> we find out Denmark Tanny, a free Black man, bought the cotton plantation (Tannyhill) with gold...possibly the gold from a British shipwreck he survived in the 1800s.

to find out more, they...go to the archiveshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="‼" title="Double exclamation mark" aria-label="Emoji: Double exclamation mark">the current owners donated Tanny& #39;s papers to UNC& #39;s archives and from there they, naturally, get some stuff wrong about archives.

the girl claims only she can access the papers which seems unlikely at a public archive; they go at night and it& #39;s open?; the archivist leaves them alone in a closed room to look at the papers; they wear cotton gloves to look thru the docs. whatever, typical.

they find Tanny used his money to buy slaves and free them, and tried to incite a revolt, so whites lynched him in 1844. before his murder, Tanny wrote a letter in Gullah to his son, but what does it say https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⁉️" title="Exclamation question mark" aria-label="Emoji: Exclamation question mark"> they snap a pic of the letter to get it translated. to be continued...

here& #39;s info on the some of the real Black history of the Outer Banks, especially stuff on the area& #39;s freedman communities: https://www.ncpedia.org/outer-banks-freedom-settlements">https://www.ncpedia.org/outer-ban...

@darling_sammy cc& #39;ing you in case you haven& #39;t seen this and wanna consider it for Pop Archives!