Record #:

2680

Author(s):

Inscoe, John C.

Abstract:

Slavery in the state's mountains differed from that supported by the cash-crop economy of the east. In the west, slave owners were mostly professional men who used the slaves in their businesses or hired them out to others.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 35 Issue 1, Fall 1995, p8-11, il

Subject(s):

Slavery--North Carolina, Western; Slaveholders--North Carolina, Western