igned to disenfranchise mulattoes and free Negroes eventually encompassed the Lumbees. As Reising (p. 88) comments on EvansÆ account of the story, ôas the nation moved toward Civil War and æHenry BearÆ toward manhood, the Lumbees moved, in the phrasing of one study, from liberty to repression.ö We see this is the case during the Civil War as well as