Record #:

20025

Author(s):

Nelson, B.H.

Abstract:

The third installment (see volumes XXXI and XXXII of this journal) in a series of articles concerning African Americans during the Civil War, the author focuses on how slave owning citizens of the state attempted to maintain the status quo through legislative and social means. Fear of slave uprisings prior to the Civil War had cast a more conservative grip on the state's slave population which, before 1835, benefited from more liberal agendas like voting rights and better education for African Americans. The author examines through newspaper accounts, legal documents, and personal correspondence how the suppression of African Americans during the war deepened as the slave holding population became more fearful of losing control.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 25 Issue 2, April 1948, p143-166, f

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans