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

Record #:

13337

Author(s):

Sharpe, Bill

Abstract:

The idea that North Carolina had the majority of the slave trade during pre-antebellum days is disputed by a Massachusetts reader who claims that the absence of a deep sea port and fleet negated extensive slave trading within state lines.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 19, Feb 1955, p8-9, 16, 21

Subject(s):

Slavery--North Carolina, Western; Slave trade--America

Record #:

19912

Author(s):

Farrison, William Edward

Abstract:

The author attempts to track the population of African Americans in Guilford County prior to the Civil War, a difficult task because of the lack of records before 1790. There was little to no African Americans with the first settlement of Guilford County and only a slow growth in numbers from 1830 to 1860 with the increase of slavery. Statistical information is provided regarding the number of whites, free African Americans, and slaves in Guilford County between 1790 through 1870.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 21 Issue 4, Oct 1944, p319-329, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Slavery--North Carolina, Western; Free Blacks; Guilford County--History