Gideon Gibson Jr.
Gideon Gibson Jr., (1721–1792) was a free man of color in the colony of South Carolina. He became a slaveholder and " regulator" in the back country. He supported their vigilantism Vigilantism () is the act of preventing, investigating and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without legal authority. A vigilante (from Spanish, Italian and Portuguese “vigilante”, which means "sentinel" or "watcher") is a person who ... to oppose British taxation policy. In May 2011, he was discussed in the ''New York Times'' as a paternal great-grandfather of Randall Lee Gibson, a planter who served as a Confederate general from Louisiana. The senior Gibson was an example of mixed-race people who succeeded economically and over several generations moved into white society.Daniel J. Sharfstein, "Black or ...
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Free Man Of Color
In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: ''gens de couleur libres''; Spanish: ''gente de color libre'') were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native American descent who were not enslaved. However, the term also applied to people born free who were primarily of Black people, black African descent with little mixture. They were a distinct group of free people of color in the French colonies, including Louisiana (New France), Louisiana and in settlements on Caribbean, Caribbean islands, such as Saint-Domingue (Haiti), St. Lucia, Dominica, Guadeloupe, and Martinique. In these territories and major cities, particularly New Orleans, and those cities held by the Spanish, a substantial third class of primarily Multiracial, mixed-race, free people developed. These colonial societies classified mixed-race people in a variety of ways, generally related to visible features and to the pro ...
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