Lowry War
The Lowry War is considered one of the most important and controversial events in North Carolina history. Led by Henry Berry Lowry (also spelled Henry Berry Lowrie), a part Tuscarora or Lumbee Indian whose father and brother were murdered by the Confederate Home Guard, a band of part Indian and African-American men waged a war against the establishment from 1864 to 1872. Lowry and his wife, Rhoda Strong, became Robin Hood-like figures to poor families of Robeson County, North Carolina, and are honored by them to this day.
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Famous quotes containing the words lowry and/or war:
“Shall we gather at the river,
Where bright angel feet have trod;
With its crystal tide for ever,
Flowing by the throne of God?”
—Robert Lowry (1826–1899)
“War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation; thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes at the end of the twentieth century as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to “feel good” about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)