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7957
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The state adopted its first slave code in 1715. This document defined the social, economic, and physical places of enslaved people. Most of the slaves purchased in the colony came from Virginia and South Carolina, and most lived on large plantations in the eastern section. The largest plantation was Stagville, established in 1787, and located in parts of what is now Orange and three other counties. More than 900 slaves worked on the 30,000-acre plantation.
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38151
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Childhood contact with government officials, along with marriage to a man with a post in the US State Department, made Rose O’Neal Greenhow apt for her role in the Civil War. As a slave owner and staunch anti-abolitionist, she was a natural fit as a Confederate spy. Even during her 1861 house arrest, she shared the Union Army’s secrets with top military brass in Richmond. Ranking within the Confederate government and a government post abroad, along with her memoir’s publication, assured that her death by sea would not sink Greenhow to obscurity.
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Greenhow, Rose O'Neal, 1814-1864; Civil War; Civil War--spies; Slavery; Anti-abolitionists; Greenhow, Maria Rosetta O'Neal, 1814-1864; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893; Jordan, Thomas, 1819-1895; Blockade runners; CONDOR (blockade runner); Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington); Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, 1807-1891
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37266
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A portrait of Mary Daves McKinlay was represented in a painting, passed down to her namesake niece, that revealed an outer gentility. A portrait painted in words also revealed gentility, in actions such as financial generosity to surviving family and the Episcopal Church of New Bern, and a view of slavery ahead of her times. Her enduring mark on New Bern may be perceived in her marker in Cedar Grove Cemetery. It may also be perceived in the pictured tablet, made by the Daves family and now in Christ Church’s graveyard.
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35958
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Blackbeard’s enduring legend, well known in Beaufort, was anchored in other Eastern North Carolina towns. Connections sunk deeply in New Bern included a house, as well as anchor and manacles reportedly from a ship sunk not far from his house. As for intangible connections, there slave-owning stories possibly validated by the discovered manacles and anchor.
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35285
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An excerpt from “A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, now in England,” details the process of tobacco farming in North Carolina from a slave hand’s perspective.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 16 Issue 1, May 1968,
p15-18
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41191
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In the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, survivors and victims’ voices are represented in media such as music, holographic images, statistics, and lynch stories. Spanning from post-Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement, it showcases the legacy of slavery for blacks and whites.
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Museums--Alabama--Legacy Museum; Slavery; Lynching; Civil rights movement; Levine Museum--see also Levine Museum of the New South; National Memorial for Peace and Justice--Legacy Museum; Lynching--North Carolina--Charlotte; Segregation--Violence; Racism--justice system--United States; Lynching--North Carolina; Lynching--Chatham County; Wilmington Massacre--see also Wilmington Race Riot
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25714
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Students and professors at East Carolina University are chronicling the 25 year journey through slavery and beyond of one Allen Parker.
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24617
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As part ten of The Civil War: Life in North Carolina series, this article describes the interstate slave trade in North Carolina, the movement of male slaves to the western part of the state, and what the imminent end of the Confederacy meant for slaveholders, as well as slaves.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 5, October 2014,
p213-214, 216, 218-220, il
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10958
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North Carolina author Hinton Rowan Helper's one best-seller, THE IMPENDING CRISIS: HOW TO MEET IT, brought him acclaim in the North and disdain in the South. His book dealt with the effect of slavery upon the three-fourths of the Southern whites who owned no slaves, and, therefore, could not benefit from the system of slavery. By 1860, over 142,000 copies were in print, and it was second in popularity only to UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.
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21541
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Former slave John Carruthers Stanly rose from the depths of slavery to become one of the wealthiest businessmen in North Carolina and a slave owner himself. While a slave, Stanly was taught to read and write and was trained as a barber. His ability to earn a living eventually led to his owner granting him his freedom. As a freeman, Stanly gained increased wealth including plantations, rental properties, and up to 168 slaves. Stanly was held in rather high regard amongst the local white community and was considered a astute businessman. Stanly's family continued to own slaves until the end of the Civil War.
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Administration of Justice Bulletin
(NoCar KFN 7908 .A15 U6), Vol. 67 Issue 2, 1990,
p159-192 , il, por, f
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36033
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Raised on hearing ghost stories and superstitions from her grandmother, the author believes the people of the South are haunted, if not from a particular ghost, then by the manifestation of guilt from the atrocities that took place in the past.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 43 Issue 1, Wntr/Spr 1996,
p69-72
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36179
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Lessons could be learned from the Old Testament hero Caleb. Noted were name doesn’t always reflect character; proportions of God and life’s problems determine perception; it is never too late in life to make a difference.
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21630
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This article examines the fate of African-born Muslim slaves in North Carolina, with more scrutiny on the life of Umar ibn Said, an educated and upper class Muslim from Senegal. It delivers details from his life, especially after he became a slave in 1810 on a Cape Fear River plantation owned by James Owen. It also chronicles his conversion to Christianity, which was used by missionaries as an example on how to convert Muslims.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 2, Apr 2000,
p127-150 , il, por, f
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24669
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Most slaves in North Carolina came second-hand from other states since there was no deep-sea fleet for the state. Regardless, North Carolina accepted the institution of slavery; the author provides a brief history of slavery in the state.
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36040
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After three bags containing items of Afro-Cuban religious and cult origins washed up on a beach, the author was contacted to decipher the meanings. Most objects were associated with Santeria, and some from Palo Mayombe. They are both religious cults which began in the Caribbean as a result of blending different aspects from two or more religious systems over a period of time. Santeria is a combination of Yoruba, a Nigerian tribe, and Cuban Catholicism. Palo Mayombe came from Bantu peoples and Catholicism, but focuses on performing magic hoping to cause misfortune or death to their enemies.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 43 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1996,
p128-141
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