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- Collection: Prewar North Carolina
"An Address to the People of North Carolina, on the Evils of Slavery. By the Friends of Liberty and Equality: Manumission Society of North Carolina," Greensborough Patriot, March, 1830
Letter from John W. Halliburton to Juliet Halliburton, March 6, [1861]
Chapel Hill
March the 6th
My Darling.
You have consented to let one sunday pass without giving to me the accustomed salute. I have not been well at ease since Ed's letter was recieved. He said that you were very sorry. My Darling is it always…
The Census of 1860.
Tags: prewar
"Childhood," ca. 1810s-1820s
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent…
Tags: Family, Race relations, slavery, Slaves, Women
"Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders," ca. 1820s
THERE was a planter in the country, not far from us, whom I will call Mr. Litch. He was an ill-bred, uneducated man, but very wealthy. He had six hundred slaves, many of whom he did not know by sight. His extensive plantation was managed by well-paid…
Tags: Family, Race relations, Racial Violence, Slaves, Violence
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
        I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be…
Tags: prewar, Slave Resistance, Slavery/Slaves, Women
Letter of Hinton R. Helper to Benjamin S. Hedrick, October 15, 1856
New York, Oct. 15, 1856
Prof. Hedrick ,
Bravo! You are right. Stand firm, and friends will gather around you. I have not the pleasure of your acquaintance, but it would do me good to take you by the hand and tell you how glad I was to find…
John H. Hopkins, "On the Constitutional Rights and Duties of the American Citizen in Reference to Slavery," May 11, 1857
State v Caesar, a Slave
CONCUR
NASH, J. I concur with Judge PEARSON in the opinion, that the prisoner is entitled to have his [**26] cause reheard before another jury. The presiding judge erred in instructing the jury, that the assault and battery, committed by the…
Tags: Slave Law, Slavery/Slaves
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David Blight, Race and Reunion (2001)
In his award-winning book, Race and Reunion, David Blight, a historian at Yale University, examines how Americans remembered the Civil War from the…