Arms and Armour

Gabriel Jacobs

Gabriel Jacobs (born c. 1650) was the progenitor of the Jacobs family of free African Americans originating in Northampton County, Virginia. Several of his descendants migrated south in the mid-1700s, primarily to southeastern North Carolina. His story and that of his descendants is representative of the experiences of hundreds of other freedmen originating in early southern American colonies.

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• ▸Bukhara
• ▸Christopher Polhem
• ▸Emir Abdelkader

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