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Account of Purchase and Sale of Slaves made by Benjamin Chambers, 1823

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Cash on hand when I started to the North: $431.00
Cash received in New York for Cotton: $6529.82
$6960.82
Claracy 24 years old 2 sisters 18 and 12 and 2 children Cost…...925.00
Flora a woman of 22 years of age Cost…… 150.00
Siseney a woman…

Charles F. Irons, "Hiding Sin behind Virtue is Bad History," Burlington Times-News, October 5, 2006

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The Sons of Confederate Veterans--in their published literature, in the pages of this newspaper, and at the fictional "Battle of Zachary Hill" held in Snow Camp three weeks ago--have argued that the Civil War was not primarily about slavery. They…

Discharged North Carolina Black Soldier to the Freedmen's Bureau Claim Agent at Baltimore, Maryland, December 1870

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I Receved yore kind letter Concerning my Discharge in 1861 the manspation had not taken place but I was in the protection By the youion Troops an Sat free by Presadence Lincon at…

Dred Scott v John Sandford

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DISSENT
Mr. Justice McLEAN dissenting.
This case is before us on a writ of error from the Circuit Court for the district of Missouri.
An action of trespass was brought, which charges the defendant with an assault and imprisonment of the plaintiff,…

D. H. Hill, "Governor John W. Ellis and Secession," 1907

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CHAPTER XXXVI. GOVERNOR JOHN W. ELLIS AND SECESSION. 427. The John Brown raid.--Two events took place in 1859 which threw North Carolina into a state of wild excitement. The first was John Brown's seizure of the United States arsenal at Harper's…

Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation: African American Slaves and Christianity, 2010.

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William E. Mongomery's fine study of the African American church in the postbellum South informs readers that nineteenth-century whites often condescendingly described black worship as "long on religion and short on Christianity." Such a statement…

"Seventy-Five Negroes Wanted," Raleigh Register, March 21, 1861

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Seventy-Five Negroes Wanted. I desire to purchase from fifty to seventy fiveLikely Young Negroes, of both sexes, ranging from eight to thirty years old--such as will be saleable in the Southern Market. No unsound negro wanted. I will pay Richmond…

"The Fayetteville Observer Reporting of John Brown's Raid of Harper's Ferry. October 20, 1859."

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Startling news from Virginia.-Yesterday’s mail brought us accounts of an outbreak at Harper’s Ferry, Va., accompanied with stories of an abolition and negro insurrection, loss of lives. It is manifest that the accounts so far are mainly guess…

“Two Years with a Colored Regiment: A Woman’s Experience," 1898

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Reminiscences of our civil war have been given to the public image again and again, and our most able men have recited the details of the great battles and stirring events. But there are few records of the experiences of women in that war. This…

General Ambrose E. Burnside to the Secretary of War, March 21, 1862

Newbern {N.C.} Mch 21 /62 I have the honor of reporting the following movements in my department since my hurrid report of the 16” inst- The detailed report of the Engagement on the 14” is not yet finished, but I hope will be ready to…