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Dr. Wade Nobles book The Island of Memes: Haiti's Unfinished Revolution has received world wide acclaim.

Dr. Wade Nobles is the son of Annie Mae Cotton (1914b) and John Nobles (1900b) and the grandson of Mims Nobles who was born into the barbarism of American slavery in 1863 and the great grandson of Wade Nobles who was born into slavery in 1836. Wade Nobles was the oldest son of Candace/Agnes (Cilla) who was also born into captivity in Edgefield, South Carolina, in 1810.

Dr. Nobles is the namesake of Agnes’ oldest son. Agnes was sold by the Mildred Cook Nobles Estate with her three children to the Sam Sheppard Plantation for $2,500. Dr. Nobles’ mother and father named him Wade which means one who is able to tread through difficult matter like mud, snow or ignorance.

Along with his wife, Dr. Vera Lynn Winmilawe Nokwanda DeMoultrie, whose Mitochondrial DNA identifies her ancestry from the Jola people of Senegal, they have five children (Michael Chikuya, Omar Jahmal, Zetha Awura, Ayanna Yasmeen and Halima Bisa) and eleven grandchildren (Talia, Mikal, Kristofer, Donovan, Deborah, Maasai, Afolarin, Moremi, Folasade, Yasmeen, and Oni Chinyere).

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