The Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society will meet virtually at 11 a.m. Saturday. The meeting will feature a talk by historian Dennis Halpin titled “Henry Jones: A Life in the Archival Shadows.” Halpin will share the little-known account of the life of Henry Jones, an African American man from Baltimore who in the late 19th century was hired to work under despicable conditions on Navassa, a Caribbean Island near Haiti. Though most people have not heard of Henry Jones, he lived a fascinating and tragic life, a release said. Henry was born to an enslaved mother, Louisa, and Henry Jones in Pocomoke City, Maryland, in 1864-1865. Henry Jones Sr. died in service during the Civil War and in the wake of this tragedy, Louisa moved with Henry to Baltimore. Louisa raised Henry as a single mother in the years immediately after the Civil War. In 1888, Henry was recruited under false pretenses to work on Navassa Island. While on the island, the company that governed ...