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Aspects of Slavery and Freedom Seeking in North Carolina

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17th Century Transportation in North Carolina
OCRACOKE ISLAND JOURNAL A JOURNAL OF ISLAND HISTORY & CULTURE
17th Century Transportation in North Carolina
OCRACOKE ISLAND JOURNAL A JOURNAL OF ISLAND HISTORY & CULTURE
A Little Freedom: Slave Runaways in North Carolina, 1775-1840
A Little Freedom: Slave Runaways in North Carolina, 1775-1840
Bill Green's Growing Carolina Gold Rice
Timeline
Timeline
Brief report of the services rendered by the freed people to the United States Army, in North Carolina, in the spring of 1862
Bud Williams Oral History Interview, Turpentine Camps and Naval Stores, September 20, 1983
Bud Williams Oral History Interview, Turpentine Camps and Naval Stores, September 20, 1983
Cash Crops - Carolina Gold Rice
Christopher Brown on Slavery HD
Cultivating Carolina Gold
Cultivating Carolina Gold
David Walker's Appeal
Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways
Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways
Dismal Swamp Company
Dismal Swamp Company
Early iron Furnace
Early iron Furnace
Ex Slaves talk about Slavery in the USA
Explore NC part 2
Explore NC part 2
Exploring North Carolina Part 1
Exploring North Carolina part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmJzVOypSA8&t=1373s
Exploring North Carolina Part 1
Fannie Lou Hamer Speaks Against Slavery and Racism in America
Fannie Lou Hamer Speaks Against Slavery and Racism in America
Forgotten Fields - Dramatic 4k Rice Fields of Georgetown South Carolina
Forgotten Fields - Dramatic 4k Rice Fields of Georgetown South Carolina
Forgotten Rice Fields of SC
Forgotten Rice Fields of SC
Friends of Freedom-Raymond Zirblis [Freedom Seeking in Vermont]
Friends of Freedom-Raymond Zirblis [Freedom Seeking in Vermont]
Getting To Know Somerset: A Brief History
Somerset Place State Historic Site. Getting To Know Somerset: A Brief History, 2019.
Getting To Know Somerset: A Brief History
Somerset Place State Historic Site. Getting To Know Somerset: A Brief History, 2019.
Getting to Know Somerset: The Enslaved Community
Somerset Place State Historic Site. Getting to Know Somerset: The Enslaved Community, 2019.
Getting to Know Somerset: The Enslaved Community
Somerset Place State Historic Site. Getting to Know Somerset: The Enslaved Community, 2019.
Getting to Know Somerset: The Enslaved Community
Somerset Place State Historic Site. Getting to Know Somerset: The Enslaved Community, 2019.
Getting to Know Somerset: The Enslaved Community
Somerset Place State Historic Site. Getting to Know Somerset: The Enslaved Community, 2019.
Gold of NC
Gold of NC
Historic Stagville
NC Now. Historic Stagville| NC Now | UNC-TV, 2015.
Historic Stagville
NC Now. Historic Stagville| NC Now | UNC-TV, 2015.
Importance of Rice
Importance of Rice
Indiantown Chasing “Guerrillas”
Along the portion of the Atlantic coast shown on the map will be seen long lines connecting Southern with Northern ports. These represent routes to liberty by sea. It is reported by a station-keeper of Valley Falls, Rhode Island, that “ Slaves in Virginia would secure passage either secretly or with the consent of the captains, in small trading vessels, at Norfolk or Portsmouth , and thus be brought into some port in New England, where their fate depended on circumstances ; " 5 and the reporter gives several instances coming within her knowledge of fugitives that escaped from Virginia to Massachusetts as stowaways on vessels. Boats engaged in the lumber trade sometimes brought refugees from New Bern, North Carolina, to Philadelphia. Captain Austin Bearse, who was active in the rescue of stowaways from vessels arriving in Boston harbor from the South , cites two instances in which fugitives came by sea from Wilmington, North Carolina, and another from Jacksonville, Florida.1 William Still gives a number of cases of escape by boat from Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, and Wilmington, North Carolina, to the Vigilance Committee at Philadelphia. Negroes arriving in New York City and coming within the horizon of Isaac T. Hopper's knowledge were often sent by water to Providence and Boston."
Indiantown Chasing “Guerrillas”
Along the portion of the Atlantic coast shown on the map will be seen long lines connecting Southern with Northern ports. These represent routes to liberty by sea. It is reported by a station-keeper of Valley Falls, Rhode Island, that “ Slaves in Virginia would secure passage either secretly or with the consent of the captains, in small trading vessels, at Norfolk or Portsmouth , and thus be brought into some port in New England, where their fate depended on circumstances ; " 5 and the reporter gives several instances coming within her knowledge of fugitives that escaped from Virginia to Massachusetts as stowaways on vessels. Boats engaged in the lumber trade sometimes brought refugees from New Bern, North Carolina, to Philadelphia. Captain Austin Bearse, who was active in the rescue of stowaways from vessels arriving in Boston harbor from the South , cites two instances in which fugitives came by sea from Wilmington, North Carolina, and another from Jacksonville, Florida.1 William Still gives a number of cases of escape by boat from Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, and Wilmington, North Carolina, to the Vigilance Committee at Philadelphia. Negroes arriving in New York City and coming within the horizon of Isaac T. Hopper's knowledge were often sent by water to Providence and Boston."
Ira Berlin on Slave Culture
Ira Berlin on Slave Culture
Ira Berlin on Slave Societies
Ira Berlin on Slave Societies
James Horton on Slavery and the American Revolution
James Horton on Slavery and the American Revolution
Jane Arrington's Narrative
-- choose an existing local media file to replace with this uploadCrossing the River on Horseback at night
-- choose an existing local media file to replace with this uploadCrossing the River on Horseback at night
Diamond Mining, Brazil, ca. 1770s
Groups of slaves engaged in various phases of diamond mining, including breaking large stones, supervised/guarded by Europeans. Born in Italy ca. 1740, Juliao joined the Portuguese army and traveled widely in the Portuguese empire; by the 1760s or 1770s he was in Brazil, where he died in 1811 or 1814. For a detailed analysis and critique of Juliao's figures as representations of Brazilian slave life, as well as a biographical sketch of Juliao and suggested dates for his paintings, see Silvia Hunold Lara, Customs and Costumes: Carlos Juliao and the Image of Black Slaves in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil (Slavery & Abolition, vol. 23 [2002], pp. 125-146). C. R. Boxer, The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750 (Univ. of Calif. Press, 1962) reproduces this painting (in black and white) and dates it 1762.
Diamond Mining, Brazil, ca. 1770s
Groups of slaves engaged in various phases of diamond mining, including breaking large stones, supervised/guarded by Europeans. Born in Italy ca. 1740, Juliao joined the Portuguese army and traveled widely in the Portuguese empire; by the 1760s or 1770s he was in Brazil, where he died in 1811 or 1814. For a detailed analysis and critique of Juliao's figures as representations of Brazilian slave life, as well as a biographical sketch of Juliao and suggested dates for his paintings, see Silvia Hunold Lara, Customs and Costumes: Carlos Juliao and the Image of Black Slaves in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil (Slavery & Abolition, vol. 23 [2002], pp. 125-146). C. R. Boxer, The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750 (Univ. of Calif. Press, 1962) reproduces this painting (in black and white) and dates it 1762.
La Caroline
La Caroline dans l'Amérique septentrionale suivant les cartes angloises
La Caroline
“Secret Passageways and Freedom Roads: Remnants of the Underground Railroad in NC : ” WRAL.com, July 26, 2020
“Secret Passageways and Freedom Roads: Remnants of the Underground Railroad in NC : ” WRAL.com, July 26, 2020
$125
$125
$125
$125
40 Hands Wanted Railroad
The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, February 13, 1858, Image 1
40 Hands Wanted Railroad
The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, February 13, 1858, Image 1
a family being separated
a family being separated
a ferry on French Board River
A ferry on French Board River
A man fending off dogs
A man fending off dogs
A mother anguished
A mother anguished
A Narrow Escape
A Narrow Escape
A Negro Man Drowned
Tarboro' press. [volume] (Tarborough, (Edgecombe Co., N.C.)) 1835-1851, October 20, 1849, Image 2
A Negro Man Drowned
Tarboro' press. [volume] (Tarborough, (Edgecombe Co., N.C.)) 1835-1851, October 20, 1849, Image 2
A Rice Estate on the North Carolina Coast
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Plantation and Frontier Documents: 1649-1863, Illustrative of Industrial History in the Colonial & Ante-Bellum South
A Rice Estate on the North Carolina Coast
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Plantation and Frontier Documents: 1649-1863, Illustrative of Industrial History in the Colonial & Ante-Bellum South
A Slave Hunt
A. Sound
Albermarle Sound
a spring near richmond va
A Spring Near Richmond VA
A Spring Near Richmond VA
a spring near richmond va
A View of the Cotton Kingdom 1820
• Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
A View of the Cotton Kingdom 1820
• Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
A View of the Cotton Kingdom 1860
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
A View of the Cotton Kingdom 1860
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Aaron Douglas the African setting
Aaron Douglas the African setting
Aaron Douglas the African setting
Abolitionists Help Escapes in the Town of Washington
Abolitionists Help Escapes in the Town of Washington
Abolitionists Help NC blacks escape in Philadelphia
Abolitionists Help NC blacks escape in Philadelphia
accused of trading with Negroes 1
accused of trading with Negroes 1
accused of trading with Negroes 1
accused of trading with Negroes 1
Adams 1
Adams 2
Adams 3
Adams 4
Adams 5
Adams 5
Adams 1
Adams 4
Adams 2
Adams 3
AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES ON THE LOWER CAPE FEAR RIVER IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES
AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES ON THE LOWER CAPE FEAR RIVER IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES
African Trade Routes
African Trade Routes
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
African Trade Routes
African Trade Routes
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Albernarle Sound Eastern Part
Albemarle Sound Eastern Part
Alec
Alec
An Idyll of the Deep South
An Idyll of the Deep South
Apprehension of the Fugitive
Apprehension of the Fugitive
arrival of freed people
Arson on a Sunday
Arson on a Sunday
Aspects of Negro Life
Aspects of Negro Life
Downloadable Infographics
Aspects of Slavery and Freedom Seeking in North Carolina Infographics
Aspects of Slavery and Freedom Seeking in North Carolina Infographics
Assessment 2
Assessment 2
Assessment and map
Assessment and map
Assessment and map
Assessment and map
Aunt Sally
Aunt Sally
Bar Pilot Prince Coit
Bar Pilot Prince Coit
Beck Poison
Beck Poison
Began Capering and Dancing with Her
Began Capering and Dancing with Her
Beginning Slave Raid General Moses
Ben Soon Newspaper-Killed by a Runaway Negro
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, September 25, 1860, Image 1
Ben Soon Newspaper-Killed by a Runaway Negro
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, September 25, 1860, Image 1
Big Swamp
Big Swamp
Black Sites Where Black Troops Were Used
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Black Sites Where Black Troops Were Used
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Black Spy Activity During the Civil War
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Black Spy Activity During the Civil War
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
black watermen
blacksmith and wheelwright shop
Bobolink the "Rice Bird"
the bobolink
Bobolink the "Rice Bird"
the bobolink
Bold Highlands
Bold Highlands
Bold Stroke Toward Freedom
Bold Strike Toward Freedom
Bold Strike Toward Freedom
Bold Strike Toward Freedom
Broiling Stray Chickens
Broiling Stray Chickens
Brother of Slave Leader to be Sold
Brotherly Encouragement
Brotherly Encouragement
Busy Ad: Return of Civil War Escapees, Sale, and Escape Notices
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, May 08, 1863, Image 2
Busy Ad: Return of Civil War Escapees, Sale, and Escape Notices
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, May 08, 1863, Image 2
By the Light of the Fire and Drew out his bible
Camp
"Contrabands coming into camp in consequence of the proclamation"
Canal
Canal
A new and exact plan of Cape Fear River from the bar to Brunswick
Cape Fear
Capture of a Slave Ship 1859
Capture of a Slave Ship 1859
A New Mapp of Carolina
Carolina Front
Carolina Gold Belt
Carolina Gold Belt, showing, south to north, the Haile, Brewer, Howie, Stuart, Moore, Long, Means, Pioneer Mills, Reed, Ferris, Rocky River, Buffalo, Phoenix, San Cristian, Concord, Moratock, Eisenhauer, Mt. Mackin, Russel, Gold Hill, Reimer, Dunns Mt., Salisbury, Silver Hill, Emmons, Silver Valley, Hoover Hill, and Jones mines. Gold-quartz veins are found in the schists
Carolina Gold Belt
Carolina Gold Belt, showing, south to north, the Haile, Brewer, Howie, Stuart, Moore, Long, Means, Pioneer Mills, Reed, Ferris, Rocky River, Buffalo, Phoenix, San Cristian, Concord, Moratock, Eisenhauer, Mt. Mackin, Russel, Gold Hill, Reimer, Dunns Mt., Salisbury, Silver Hill, Emmons, Silver Valley, Hoover Hill, and Jones mines. Gold-quartz veins are found in the schists
Carolina rice planter banjo
Carolina rice planter banjo
Cascades, near Warm Springs
Cascades, near Warm Springs
Catherine Coffin
Catherine Coffin
Charity Still Twice Escaped
Charity Still Twice Escaped
Children and baby walking
"Were busy in superintending the first walking operations of the baby."
Church of the Fugitive Slaves in Boston
Church of the Fugitive Slaves in Boston
Civil War Freedom Routes and the Six Nations
• Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Civil War Freedom Routes and the Six Nations
• Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Climbing the cotton bales to read
Coastal Image
Coastal Image
Coastal Image
Coastal Image
Cape Fear River with the counties adjacent, and the towns of Brunswick and Wilmington, against which Lord Cornwallis, detached a part of his army, the 17th of January last
Coastal Image
Coastal Image
Coastal Image
Coastal Image
Coastal Image
Coastal N & S Carolina
Coastal N & S Carolina
Color Gold Deposits
Color Gold Deposits
Colored Funeral
Colored Funeral
Contrabands at work repairing the rail road at Stone River battle ground, near Murfreesburgh, Tenn.
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) (Publisher)
Contrabands at work repairing the rail road at Stone River battle ground, near Murfreesburgh, Tenn.
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) (Publisher)
Conversion of a Negro
Conversion of a Negro
Cook
Cook
Coon Hunting Sharing Stories
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-400a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Coon Hunting Sharing Stories
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-400a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
core sound
core sound
corn field alex
corn field alex
Corn Fields
Tim Foster
Corn Fields
Tim Foster
Corn Shucking in Virginia
Corn Shucking in VA
Cotton Gathering
Picking Cotton, U.S. South, 1873-74
Cotton Gathering
Picking Cotton, U.S. South, 1873-74
Cotton Hoards in the Swamps
Couple Embracing
Couple Embracing
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Crossing Suspension Bridge
Crossing the bay in a skiff
Crossing the bay in a skiff
Crossing the River on Horseback at Night
Crossing the River on Horseback at night
Crossing the River on Horseback at night
Crossing the River on Horseback at night
Crossing the River on Horseback at night
Crossing the River on Horseback at Night
Cupla House-Mrs. Dickinson Seeks Freedom Seeker
Cupola House of Edenton, Chowan County, Vol 1 - Text: Research report see http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p16062coll6/id/5140
Cupla House-Mrs. Dickinson Seeks Freedom Seeker
Cupola House of Edenton, Chowan County, Vol 1 - Text: Research report see http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/ref/collection/p16062coll6/id/5140
Currituck Sound
Currituck Sound
Curry Comic image
Cypress Tree
Cypress Tree
D Progress
D Progress
Dancing and Banjo showy
Dancing and Banjo showy
Deep River Coal Field
deep river coal field
Deep River Coal Field
deep river coal field
Deep River Gold Mine
Deep River Gold Mine
Deep River gold Mining
Deep River gold Mining
Deep River Gold Mining Company
Deep River Gold Mining Company
Deep River Gold Mining Company
Deep River Gold Mining Company
Deep River Hancocks Mill
Deep River Hancocks Mill
Deer
Deer
Desire to Hire Negroes-Hiring Out
The North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1834-1850, February 07, 1838, Image 4
Desire to Hire Negroes-Hiring Out
The North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1834-1850, February 07, 1838, Image 4
Desperate Conflict in a Barn
Desperate Conflict in a Barn
Diamond Mining, Brazil, ca. 1770s
Groups of slaves engaged in various phases of diamond mining, including breaking large stones, supervised/guarded by Europeans. Born in Italy ca. 1740, Juliao joined the Portuguese army and traveled widely in the Portuguese empire; by the 1760s or 1770s he was in Brazil, where he died in 1811 or 1814. For a detailed analysis and critique of Juliao's figures as representations of Brazilian slave life, as well as a biographical sketch of Juliao and suggested dates for his paintings, see Silvia Hunold Lara, Customs and Costumes: Carlos Juliao and the Image of Black Slaves in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil (Slavery & Abolition, vol. 23 [2002], pp. 125-146). C. R. Boxer, The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750 (Univ. of Calif. Press, 1962) reproduces this painting (in black and white) and dates it 1762.
Diamond Mining, Brazil, ca. 1770s
Groups of slaves engaged in various phases of diamond mining, including breaking large stones, supervised/guarded by Europeans. Born in Italy ca. 1740, Juliao joined the Portuguese army and traveled widely in the Portuguese empire; by the 1760s or 1770s he was in Brazil, where he died in 1811 or 1814. For a detailed analysis and critique of Juliao's figures as representations of Brazilian slave life, as well as a biographical sketch of Juliao and suggested dates for his paintings, see Silvia Hunold Lara, Customs and Costumes: Carlos Juliao and the Image of Black Slaves in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil (Slavery & Abolition, vol. 23 [2002], pp. 125-146). C. R. Boxer, The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750 (Univ. of Calif. Press, 1962) reproduces this painting (in black and white) and dates it 1762.
Diamond Mining in Brazil
Diamond Mining in Brazil
different vessels on the water
different vessels on the water
Documentaries on Black History
Documentaries on Black History
Domestic House Servants
Domestic House Servants
Domestic Servant Girl Wanted
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, July 29, 1829, Image 2
Domestic Servant Girl Wanted
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, July 29, 1829, Image 2
domestic servant wanted
domestic servant wanted
Domestic Slave Trade Routes
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Domestic Slave Trade Routes
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
drying leaves
drying leaves
drying process
drying process
duke
duke
Early Meeting House
Early Meeting House
Early Underground Railroad- A Native American Focus
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Early Underground Railroad- A Native American Focus
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Early Underground Railroad- Pre and Post American Revolution
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Early Underground Railroad- Pre and Post American Revolution
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Eccles Mill and Pond
Eccles Mill and Pond
Edward Stone's Coffle Gang
Edward Stone's Coffle Gang
Elderly
Elderly Aunt Winnie
Eleven Escaped
Eleven Escaped
Eluding Pursuers
Enslaved House Servants
Enslaved House Servants
escape background
escape background
Escape Narrative of Scout William Kinnegy
Escape River
River Escape
escape to the union line
escape to the union line
Escape with a white lady and enslaved person acting as her coachman
Escape with a white lady and enslaved person acting as her coachman
Escaping Alabama on top of a train car
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Escaping from Alabama on top of a car." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 15, 2021. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-1bb4-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Escaping Alabama on top of a train car
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Escaping from Alabama on top of a car." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 15, 2021. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-1bb4-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Escaping from Portsmouth
Escaping from Portsmouth
Ethiopia
Yes! Ethiopia yet shall stretch Her bleeding hands abroad; Her cry of agony shall reach The burning throne of God. The tyrant's yoke from off her neck, His fetters from her soul, The mighty hand of God shall break, And spurn the base control. Redeemed from dust and freed from chains, Her sons shall lift their eyes; From cloud-capt hills and verdant plains Shall shouts of triumph rise. Upon her dark, despairing brow, Shall play a smile of peace; For God shall bend unto her wo, And bid her sorrows cease. 'Neath sheltering vines and stately palms Shall laughing children play, And aged sires with joyous psalms Shall gladden every day. Secure by night, and blest by day, Shall pass her happy hours; Nor human tigers hunt for prey Within her peaceful bowers. Then, Ethiopia! stretch, oh! stretch Thy bleeding hands abroad; Thy cry of agony shall reach And find redress from God.
Euro-Native American Slave Trade
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Euro-Native American Slave Trade
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Euro-Slave Trade
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Euro-Slave Trade
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Examing a Slave for Sale VA 1830
Examing a Slave for Sale VA 1830
fam and escaped
fam and escaped
family and map
family and map
Family Escape
Family Escape
Family hired out
Family hired out
Family hired out
Family hired out
Family sold indiscriminately
Family sold indiscriminately
fanning and pounding rice for household use
Father and daughter
Father and daughter
Father to be sold
Father to be sold
Festive moment
Festive moment
Fight to Escape on the Chesapeake
Fight to Escape on the Chesapeake
fighting off dog
fighting off dog
Fire
Fire
Fire Engine and Hotel Advertisement
Fire Engine and Hotel Advertisement
first public school
Fishing at night
Fishing at night
Fleeing by small boat
Fleeing by small boat
flight of negroes
Frank Mutton Pursued by Mrs. Dickinson
Frank Mutton Pursued by Mrs. Dickinson
Friends Meeting House New York
Frying Pan Shoals
Fugitive Attacked by Dogs
Fugitive Attacked by Dogs
Fugitive in swamp
Fugitive Slave Traped in Tree
Fugitive Slave Traped in Tree
Fugitive Slaves
Fugitive Slaves
fugitive slaves help off the boat
fugitive slaves rain
fugitive slaves help off the boat
fugitive slaves rain
Funeral
Funeral
Funeral Color
Funeral Color
Funeral South
Funeral South
Furney Bryant
Geological Map Highlighted
Geological Map Highlighted
Glimpse of Toe
Glimpse of Toe
Gold in NC
Gold in NC
Gold Map
Gold Map
Gold Mining in Brazil
Gold Mining in Brazil
Gold Works of Itacolumi, Brazil - Gold Washing
This engraving depicts a group of enslaved men and woman mining in Brazil near Ouro Preto. According to the accompanying text, "to the left a party of slaves is catching the gold dust by immersing fleeces in the running water; on the right, two other slaves are beating out the dust from a fleece into a large wooden dish placed on the ground to receive it; behind them a European is weighing the gold dust in scales, and men and women are seen bringing down pieces of quartz containing gold to be broken up by others" (p. 208).
Gold Works of Itacolumi, Brazil - Gold Washing
This engraving depicts a group of enslaved men and woman mining in Brazil near Ouro Preto. According to the accompanying text, "to the left a party of slaves is catching the gold dust by immersing fleeces in the running water; on the right, two other slaves are beating out the dust from a fleece into a large wooden dish placed on the ground to receive it; behind them a European is weighing the gold dust in scales, and men and women are seen bringing down pieces of quartz containing gold to be broken up by others" (p. 208).
Gone Off with the Yanks
Grandmother and grandson
Grandmother and grandson
Greeting the Master
Greeting the Master
Halifax Jail
Halifax Jail
Halsey_Copper_Mine_Guilford_Co_NC
Halsey_Copper_Mine_Guilford_Co_NC
Harbored Slave
Harbored Slave
Hasty's Grief
Hasty's Grief
Hauling Cotton
Hauling Cotton
Hauling Seine
Hauling Seine
Hauling the Seine
Hauling the Seine
Head Herring
Head Herring
Hiding from steam ship in row boat
Hiding in Swamp
Hiding in Swamp
Hire Hand Turpentine
Hire Hand Turpentine
Hired Out 2
Hired Out 2
Hired out to railroad and escape
Hired out to railroad and escape
History of Scout William Kinnegy
hoeing rice
hoeing rice
House Servant
House Servant
I cannot be plagued with this child
I cannot be plagued with this child
I take Care of Em Said Peter
I take Care of Em Said Peter
Im not to blame for being white
Im not to blame for being white
Importance of Rice
Importance of Rice
In the swamp
In the swamp
Industry of the women and children
Iron Collars
Iron Collars
Iron Furnace
Iron Furnace
iron ore
iron ore
Iron Ore NC zoom
Iron Ore NC zoom
Iron Ore NC zoom
Iron Ore NC zoom
James Curry Audio
Jane Arrington's Narrative
John Brown
John Brown
johnny b and two horses
johnny b and two horses
Killed by a runaway negro
Killed by a runaway negro
Kitchen Fire
Kitchen Fire
La Caroline
La Caroline
La récolte du coton sur une habitation de l'Amérique du Sud
La récolte du coton sur une habitation de l'Amérique du Sud
Landing Fugitives in Canada
Landing Fugitives in Canada
Large Sale
The southerner. [volume] (Tarboro', Edgecombe Co., (N.C.)) 1852-1867, October 04, 1856, Image 2
Large Sale
The southerner. [volume] (Tarboro', Edgecombe Co., (N.C.)) 1852-1867, October 04, 1856, Image 2
Leap of the Fugitive Slave
Leap of the Fugitive Slave
lessons or religion lessons
lessons or religion lessons
Letter Address
Letter Address
Levi Coffin
Levi Coffin
Life Insurance
Life Insurance
Liquor Speculation
Liquor Speculation
Little Lewis Sold
Little Lewis Sold
Living in a hollow tree
Living in a hollow tree
Loading Flatboat
Loading Flatboat
Major Crops
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Major Crops
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Major Trading Routes
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Major Trading Routes
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Map_of_Gold_Hill__Vicinity
Map of Gold Hill Vicinity
Map of the Deep River District North Carolina
Map of the Deep River District North Carolina
Maroons in Ambush Jamaica
Maroons in Ambush Jamaica
Marriage Send off
Marriage Send off
Mary Milburn
Mary Millburn
Melancholy Accident
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, March 29, 1860, Image 4
Melancholy Accident
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, March 29, 1860, Image 4
Mind Yourself
Mind Yourself
Mount Pisgah
Mount Pisgah
mountain region, slaveholders dominate fertile lands
mountain region, slaveholders dominate fertile lands
Mountain View
Mountain View
Mr. J of NC in London
Mitchell, W. M. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom /. London :, 1860.
Mr. J of NC in London
Mitchell, W. M. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom /. London :, 1860.
Mrs Banton Treatment of her young slaves
Mrs Banton Treatment of her young slaves
Murder of Poor Denby
Murder of Poor Denby
Names of those drowned in a Massive incident-enslaved not named
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, May 15, 1860, Image 2
Names of those drowned in a Massive incident-enslaved not named
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, May 15, 1860, Image 2
Nat Gripande
Nat Gripande
Nat Turner's Route
Native American Removal
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Native American Removal
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Native American Slavery
Native American Slavery
Nat's Conference
Nat's Conference
Negro Girl Drown South Yadkin
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, September 16, 1862, Image 4
Negro Girl Drown South Yadkin
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, September 16, 1862, Image 4
Negro life in the South
Negro Sailor Drown
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, March 29, 1860, Image 4
Negro Sailor Drown
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, March 29, 1860, Image 4
New Map of North Carolina
New Map of NC
New York slave market
New York slave market
News article of captured african slavery
News article of captured african slavery
No 2 Cape Fear
No 2 Cape Fear
No 4 US Coast Survey
No 4 US Coast Survey
Nurse
oak of jerusalem
oak of jerusalem
observationss on the enslaving importing and purchase of Negroes
observationss on the enslaving importing and purchase of Negroes
Ochlawaha Valley
Ochlawaha Valley
old boat landing
old boat landing
Old Time Funeral
Old Time Funeral
Orange County Railroad
Orange County Railroad
Organization of Labor Iron Furnace
Organization of Labor Iron Furnace
Organization of Labor Iron Furnace
Organization of Labor Iron Furnace
Other Market
Other Market
Other Markets
Other Markets
Our aim
Our aim
Our Recompense
Our Recompense
Pan Shoals
Pan Shoals
Patrol Order 3
Patrol Order 3
petition and map
petition and map
Petition to Sale
Petition to Sale
Pilots and Escapes
Pilots and Escapes
placing the stockade in building the forts
Plank road
Plank road
Plank Road Sketch
Plank Road Sketch
plantation singers
plantation singers
Plantation Slave SC 1862
Plantation Slave SC 1862
Plantation slaves
Plantation slaves
Planting Rice
Planting Rice
Planting Rice US South
Planting Rice US South
Planting Rice US South
Planting Rice US South
Pounding Rice
Pounding Rice
Power game
Power game
Prayer Meeting
Prayer Meeting
Prayer Meeting
Prayer Meeting
Prince Coit
Prince Coit 1
Prince Coit
Prince Coit 1
Public Sale of Ten Negroes
The North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1834-1850, February 07, 1838, Image 4
Public Sale of Ten Negroes
The North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1834-1850, February 07, 1838, Image 4
Punishment
Punishment
Quater activity
Quarter activity
Rail calls for hands
Rail calls for hands
Railroad Map
Railroad Map
Reading the Emancipation Proclamation
Reading the Emancipation Proclamation
Repairing Railroad
Report of the Services Rendered by the Freed People of NC
Resources On Slavery in North Carolina and General Black History
Resources On Slavery in North Carolina and General Black History
Resources On Black History
Resources On Black History
Returning a Runaway
returning a runaway
Returning a Runaway
returning a runaway
reuniting
reuniting
Revolts and Riots
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Revolts and Riots
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
rice harvesting
rice harvesting
rice threshing
rice threshing
roanoke navigation company owning and hiring blacks
roanoke navigation company owning and hiring blacks
Roving Editor
Run over by Steamer
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, September 07, 1855, Image 2
Run over by Steamer
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, September 07, 1855, Image 2
Sale Advertisement
Sale Advertisement
Sale of Henson
Sale of Henson
Sale of Negroes William Hooper
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, January 31, 1821, Image 3
Sale of Negroes William Hooper
The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, January 31, 1821, Image 3
sam and map
sam and map
Schooner New York
Schooner New York
Scramble for the Americas
Scramble for the Americas
Scramble of America
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Scramble of America
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
selling
selling
Selling Sweet Potatoes
Selling Sweet Potatoes
Selling Sweet Potatoes
Selling Sweet Potatoes
Sergeant Furney Bryant
Sharecropped tobacco
Sharecropping
Sharecropped tobacco
Sharecropping
Sharecropped tobacco
Sharecropping
Sharecropped tobacco
Sharecropping
She began to sob vehemently
She began to sob vehemently
Ship News-Port of Wilmington
The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, August 30, 1845, Image 3 Image provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, Chapel Hill, N
Ship News-Port of Wilmington
The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, August 30, 1845, Image 3 Image provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, Chapel Hill, N
shucking corn
shucking corn
side Prince Coit
side Prince Coit
Six on Two Horses
Six on Two Horses
sketch d
sketch d
Sketch progress
Sketch progress
slave auction
slave auction
Slave Cabin on a Rice Plantation, U.S. South, 1859
Harper's Monthly Magazine, vol. 19 (1859), p. 724; accompanies article by T. Addison Richards, "The Rice Lands of the South" (pp. 721-38). (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)"
Slave Cabin on a Rice Plantation, U.S. South, 1859
Harper's Monthly Magazine, vol. 19 (1859), p. 724; accompanies article by T. Addison Richards, "The Rice Lands of the South" (pp. 721-38). (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)"
Slave Cabins
Slave Cabins
Slave Codes
Slave Codes
Slave Harbor 1
Slave Harbor 1
Slave Kneeling
Slave Kneeling
Slave Narrative of Jane Arrington
Slave Patrol
Slave Patrol
slave patrol
Slave Quarter in the Cellar
Slave Quarters
Slave Quarters
Slave Quarters photo
Slave Quarters photo
Slaves Wanted in California
The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, July 07, 1849, Image 3
Slaves Wanted in California
The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, July 07, 1849, Image 3
Sold to Go South
Sold to Go South
Spainish and Portugese
Spainish and Portugese
State v Sam
State v Sam
Stolen Horse
Stolen Horse
Strategic War Points
Strategic War Points
Swamps
Swamps
Tax Assessment
Tax Assessment 1
Tax Assessment
Tax Assessment 1
test
test
The British Caribbean Involved in the Triangle of Trade
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
The British Caribbean Involved in the Triangle of Trade
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
The Christina Tragedy
The Christina Tragedy
The Flies Got to Her and She's Dead
the freedmen as union scouts
The French Broad Canon
The French Broad Canon
The Fugitive's Wife
It was my sad and weary lot To toil in slavery; But one thing cheered my lowly cot — My husband was with me. One evening, as our children played Around our cabin door, I noticed on his brow a shade I'd never seen before; And in his eyes a gloomy night Of anguish and despair; — I gazed upon their troubled light, To read the meaning there. He strained me to his heaving heart — My own beat wild with fear; I knew not, but I sadly felt There might be evil near. He vainly strove to cast aside The tears that fell like rain: — Too frail, indeed, is manly pride, To strive with grief and pain. Again he clasped me to his breast, And said that we must part: I tried to speak — but, oh! it seemed An arrow reached my heart. " Bear not, " I cried, " unto your grave, The yoke you've borne from birth; No longer live a helpless slave, The meanest thing on earth! "
The Generous Planter
The Generous Planter
The Macon Highland
The Macon Highland
The mayor and police of Norfolk search schooner
The mayor and police of Norfolk search schooner
The Mistress Welcome Home
The Mistress Welcome Home
The Narrative of Jane Arrington
The Narrative of Jane Arrington-WPA North Carolina
The overseer had brutally assaulted my mother
The overseer had brutally assaulted my mother
The Road to Liberty
the sheaves are beaten with flails
the sheaves are beaten with flails
The Slave Pursued
The Slave Pursued
The Sparkling Catabwa Springs
The Sparkling Catabwa Springs
The Spirit of Africa
The Spirit of Africa
The Standard
The Standard
The Swannanoa Hotel
The Swannanoa Hotel
thinking near the fire
thinking near the fire
tobacco hoeing women
tobacco hoeing women
tom and Haley rattled along the dusty road
tom and Haley rattled along the dusty road
Tom knelt before him with clasped hands
Tom knelt before him with clasped hands
total and slave population
U.S. Census, 1790 to 1860 and 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules
total and slave population
U.S. Census, 1790 to 1860 and 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules
Town Ordinance
Town Ordinance
Train
Train
Train escape
Train escape
Triangle Trade
Arwin Smallwood
Triangle Trade
Arwin Smallwood
Turpentine
Turpentine
Turpentine
Turpentine
Unaka Kanoos
Unaka Kanoos
Uncle Aaron Advice from the Pulpit
Uncle Aaron Advice from the Pulpit
Underground Railroad map with Native Lands visible
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Underground Railroad map with Native Lands visible
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Union Scout
Unloading Rice from Boat
Unloading Rice from Boat
Unloading Rice from Boat
Unloading Rice from Boat
Vessel Information
Vessel Information
Vessel information newspaper Wilmington
Vessel information newspaper Wilmington
waiting to be sold
waiting to be sold
Warm Springs Madison NC
Warm Springs Madison NC
Watagua Falls
Watagua Falls
Water World
Water World
Waterfall
Waterfall
West View of Wilmington
West View of Wilmington
What is the Drawer For
What is the Drawer For
White man whipping a woman
White man whipping a woman
Whitter poem
Whitter poem
Whittier Dr. Ross
Whittier Dr. Ross
Wife Buys Husband
Wife Buys Husband
William Jordan Audio
William Jordan Audio
William Kinnegy and Family
William Kinnegy Escape Story Audio
William Kinnegy Returns with family
William Singleton Audio
Wilmington Photo
Wilmington Photo
Windsor
Windsor
Windsor and Colraine Plot
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Windsor and Colraine Plot
Arwin Smallwood, (1997). (The Atlas of African-American History and Politics: From the Slave Trade to Modern Times). pp. 192. McGraw Hill.
Women Pounding Rice
Women Pounding Rice
Micheal Kiwanuka - Black Man In A White World
Network to Freedom Underground Railroad Locations
Network to Freedom Underground Railroad Locations
Nobody Knows
North Carolina 1836
Of The slave
Of The slave
Our Ancestors Were 'Bout It: The Maroons & Black Liberation In North America | The Breakdown
Our Ancestors Were 'Bout It: The Maroons & Black Liberation In North America | The Breakdown
Patrols Wiki
Patrols Wiki
Rice in the Lowcountry
Rice in the Lowcountry
Runaway
This short dramatic film follows an enslaved woman named Sue and her encounter with Galloway and Prince, two enslaved men who are running away. Galloway suggests that Sue join them, leading her to consider taking her daughter Mary and trying to escape to freedom
Runaway
This short dramatic film follows an enslaved woman named Sue and her encounter with Galloway and Prince, two enslaved men who are running away. Galloway suggests that Sue join them, leading her to consider taking her daughter Mary and trying to escape to freedom
Sarah Gudger Audio Reenactment: Slave Narrative from the Federal Writers Project of 1938
Singing on the Land: Historic Stagville’s
N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Singing on the Land: Historic Stagville’s Story, 2020
Singing on the Land: Historic Stagville’s
N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Singing on the Land: Historic Stagville’s Story, 2020
Slavery on Ocracoke
Slavery on Ocracoke
Slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp
Slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp
Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South by Michael Tadman
Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South by Michael Tadman
Story Map
story map
Story Map
story map
Story Map
Story Map
Story Map Race and Geography
Story Map Race and Geography
The Great Dismal Swamp was a refuge for the enslaved. Their descendants want to preserve it.
The Great Dismal Swamp was a refuge for the enslaved. Their descendants want to preserve it.
The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790–1860
Minnesota Population Center, *National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0* (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 2011), http://www.nhgis.org.
The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790–1860
Minnesota Population Center, *National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0* (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 2011), http://www.nhgis.org.
The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790–1860 by Lincoln Mullen.
Minnesota Population Center, *National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0* (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 2011), http://www.nhgis.org.
The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790–1860 by Lincoln Mullen.
Minnesota Population Center, *National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0* (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 2011), http://www.nhgis.org.
The WPA and the Slave Narrative Collection: The WPA and Americans' Life Histories
Black Heritage Timeline
Black Heritage Timeline
NC Black Heritage Timeline
NC Black Heritage Timeline
tobacco
Tobacco Production
Tobacco Production
Understanding Slavery via Narratives James O. Horton
Understanding Slavery via Narratives James O. Horton
VOICES FROM THE DAYS OF SLAVERY - LAURA SMALLEY
VOICES FROM THE DAYS OF SLAVERY - LAURA SMALLEY
We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar
William Singleton Narrative
William Singleton Narrative
Wood: The Building Block of America | Modern Marvels (S18, E8) | Full Episode | History
Wood: The Building Block of America | Modern Marvels (S18, E8) | Full Episode | History

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