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Record #:
41247
Author(s):
Rohrs, Richard C.
Abstract:
The outcomes of this case were a mixed blessing. Concerns over the growing free black population and criticism from the North about slavery prompted the erosion of legal rights in North Carolina for blacks free from a legal, but not social, standpoint. It also proved there were white North Carolinians committed to continuing legal rights for free blacks, bettering the treatment of enslaved blacks, and enlisting their aid in preventing slave rebellions.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 95 Issue 1, January 2018, p29-46
Subject(s):
Free blacks--Antebellum South; Legal status--free blacks and slaves--Antebellum period; Free blacks--Antebellum period--North Carolina; Black slave owners--Antebellum period--North Carolina; State vs Edmund, a Slave 1833; Suffrage--black males--Antebellum period; Daniel, Joseph J., 1784-1848; State vs Edmund, a Slave, 1833--Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin
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