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The current issue of the Randolph County (NC) Genealogical Journal has an article encouraging folks to get out and visit the counties many historic sites, including Strieby Church, School, and Cemetery Cultural Heritage Site. The blurb says it marks an “influential “ African American community, where African American Quaker Miles Lassiter and poet, minister, and teacher, Islay Walden once lived. #mileslassiter #islaywalden #randolphcountync #africanamericanquakers #africanamericanpoets #africanamericanministers #africanamericaneducators #africanamericanteachers https://www.instagram.com/p/CWhDN-svZIY/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Pleased to be notified of these awards today, affirming all my hard work to document my ancestors. #mileslassiter #mileslassiterdescendants #striebychurchnc #randolphcountync #randolphcountynchistory #randolphcountynclandmarks #africanamericanquakers #ncquakers https://www.instagram.com/p/CKDJnODJGuE/?igshid=mu57876k54md

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BOOKS make a great holiday gift! Including mine: Miles Lassiter (circa 1777-1850) An Early African American Quaker from Lassiter Mill, Randolph County, North Carolina (Backintyme Publishing, 2011); and From Hill Town to Strieby: Education and the American Missionary Association in the Uwharrie “Back Country” of Randolph County, North Carolina (Backintyme Publishing, 2016). #blacksuthorsmatter #africanamericanhistory #africanamericanquakers #americanmissionaryassociation #randolphcountync https://www.instagram.com/p/CIPDJTFJgP1/?igshid=144tqg7x4ljn3

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#genealogyphotoaday is the number “1”. “One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.” Three Dog Night. Pictured is the approval of the request to the Back Creek Monthly Meeting (Asheboro,NC) for membership in the Society of Friends. I can’t help but think Miles Lassiter wished there were other African American members in his local Quaker Meeting, Uwharrie Meeting, in what is now New Hope Township, Randolph County, North Carolina. While it is evident from various minutes where his name appears that he was a respected member of the Meeting, the implications of the singularity of his membership (he was the only African American member in the state of North Carolina) would not have been lost on him. His eulogizer, in his obituary (Dod: 22 June 1850) was bold enough to ask how it could be that he was the only one and wonder if there was a lack of hospitality (racism). Quakers still wrestle with the question. For more on Quakers and their historic relations with African Americans, see “Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship.” #blackquakers #quakers #quakerhistory #societyoffriends #societyoffriendsakaquakers #africanamericanquakers #blackquakerhistory #africanamericanhistory #blackhistory #randolphcountync #mileslassiter https://www.instagram.com/p/BviqJxkAf_w/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1m5xcnvs7ep7h