in episode 4 of Outer Banks, they have grabbed this historian's undivided attention 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 archivesthe current owners donated Tanny's papers to UNC'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'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 they snap a pic of the letter to get it translated. to be continued...

here's info on the some of the real Black history of the Outer Banks, especially stuff on the area's freedman communities: https://www.ncpedia.org/outer-banks-freedom-settlements

@darling_sammy cc'ing you in case you haven't seen this and wanna consider it for Pop Archives!