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- Tags: Slavery/Slaves
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
State v. Mann (1829)
The master is not liable to an indictment for a battery committed upon his slave. One who has a right to the labor of a slave, has also a right to all the means of controlling his conduct which the owner has. Hence one who has hired a slave is not…
Tags: Slavery/Slaves, State Government
"Insurrection in North Carolina," North Carolina Star, September 15, 1831
The Edenton Gazette states, upon information received from an undoubted source, that there have been killed in Southampton county upwards of one hundred negroes, consequent upon the late insurrection in that county. Fourteen of the thoughtless,…
Tags: Slavery/Slaves
Herbert Aptheker, Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion (2006)
Fear created suspicion, suspicion led to torture, torture to confessions. Or, it is possible, and that is but a guess, that panic, or part of it, was maintained by people interested in the purchase of slaves at a low price. Another hypothesis was…
Tags: Slavery/Slaves
Letter of Sterling Ruffin to Thomas Ruffin, June 9, 1804
From Sterling Ruffin. [Brunswick, June, 1804] I have no apology to offer for not complying with the promise made in my last, of writing again, in a few days, except that I wish'd to have forwarded you a small B. Note, for fear, from some unforeseen…
Tags: Race relations, Slavery/Slaves
Mark Tushnet, Slave Law in the American South (2003)
Tags: Race relations, Slavery/Slaves
David Brown, "Attacking Slavery from Within" (2004)
Just weeks after the incident in Baltimore, a fellow North Carolinian was also attacked for his abolitionist stance. Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, born and raised near Salisbury, was dismissed from his fac ulty post at the University of North Carolina…
William C. Harris, ''The Southern Unionist Critique of the Civil War'' (1985)
Missing from these historiographical studies are the views of Southern Unionists. Although containing elements of both contemporary Northern and Confederate interpretations, the Unionist critique of the war is unique, providing insights into the…
Jean Fagan Yellin, The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (2008)
She was a slave in the South and a fugitive in the South and in the North. She was an abolitionist, the author of a published slave narrative. She was a relief worker during the Civil War, and after Reconstruction, she was an entrepreneur. Although…
Tags: Slave Resistance, Slavery/Slaves, Women
Craven County meeting resolutions, December 12, 1860
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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, 1827-1886
Benjamin Hedrick (1827-1886), a chemistry professor at UNC, was dismissed from his job in 1856 after openly claiming that he supported the Republican…