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The black Gordons

By Teri Stewart | 0:00:51

The original Gordon plantation was home to two Gordon families, one white and one black, both with lasting legacies.

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A lot of people don’t realize that the Gordons were a biracial family. When John and Fannie met in 1854, they each had a slave. John had a slave named Jim. Fannie had a slave named Sarah. Jim and Sarah also fell in love and it was love at first sight with them, and they were actually married on the same day that John and Fannie were married, in a double ceremony. Interestingly enough, in 1955, Sarah and Jim’s grandson, Walter A. Gordon, was appointed Gov. General of the Virgin Islands, so we actually had from the same piece of property a white governor and a black governor.

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