Jones, Norrece T.

NORRECE T. JONES, JR., born in Philadelphia and raised in the urban North, spent his summers with four generations of family in the rural South, where he first saw the large plantations of antebellum South Carolina, symbols of the society of slavery. After a year at the University Of Ghana as an exchange student in 1972-73, he was graduated from Hampton in 1974. He received his Ph.D from Northwestern University in 1981. Jones is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University.