Re: Gibson Family
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Gibson Family
Larry Keels 12/19/06
an excerpt from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/gibsonfamily.htmlhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/gibsonfamily.html
The news that Senator Strom Thurmond had a mixed race daughter who had remained a secret to the outside world for several decades was not news for genealogists and historians. They've long known about the many great families of the South with mixed race histories. Arguably, the most notable among these is the great political "Ur" family of the South, the Gibsons. Why the early and rich history of this family has been so ignored would be amusing, if it were not such a clear cut example of how certain subjects can be too politically incorrect to handle.
Gideon Gibson's family first appeared in the records when they applied for land in the Santee River area in South Carolina around 1730. Although some objected to their being "free colored men with their white wives," in the end they were given permission by Governor Robert Johnson.
Soon after, they became part of a sociological phenomenon which the few scholars who have looked at it have still not satisfactorily explained. Probably due to the difficulty of working land without recourse to labour (whether from slavery or indentured servitude) there occured in early South Carolina beginning sometime in the late 1740s and ending just prior to the Revolution, a rather surprising number of fairly substantial land holders who sold their properties and for lack of a better description, simply went 'bush.'
Living together in the woods in loose communities, they refused to work and existed by poaching, theft and as they grew more desperate, highway robbery and raids on the homes and farms of their law abiding, hard working neighbours. Besides the women they abducted who became just as criminally proficient, their ranks swelled with a great many Indians and runaway slaves.
In the end, these 'banditi' were brought to heel by the Gibsons and other farming families. Located too far from the centres of British colonial administration, they took the law into their own hands and eventually caused greater concern to the British government than the troublesome element they had initially gone up against. For these morally upstanding and highly industrious pioneers with the Gideon Gibson as their leader, go down in history as the country's first vigilantes - or'regulators' as they were known then. It was their initiative that instigated those movements which, a few decades later, would erupt into the most violent of that kind of action - lynching.
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