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[11] Freedom on the Move is a crowdsourced archive of runaway slave ads published in the United States. [12] The North Carolina Runaway Slave Notices Project at the University of North Carolina Greensboro is a database of all known runaway slave ads published in North Carolina between 1750 and 1865. [13]
Kay, Marvin L. Michael, and Lorin Lee Cary. "Slave Runaways in Colonial North Carolina, 1748-1775." North Carolina Historical Review 63.1 (1986): 1–39. online; Minchinton, Walter E. "The Seaborne Slave Trade of North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 71.1 (1994): 1–61. online; Modlin Jr, E. Arnold.
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature (editor, 2006) The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride by Julia C. Collins (co-editor, 2006) Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave (co-editor, 2008) The Portable Charles Chesnutt (editor, 2008) Slave Narratives after Slavery (editor, 2011) Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave (editor ...
“The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots” offers a harsh indictment of slavery and American democracy.
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John Anthony Copeland Jr. (August 15, 1834 – December 16, 1859) was born free in Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the eight children born to John Copeland Sr. and his wife Delilah Evans, free mulattos, who married in Raleigh in 1831. Delilah was born free, while John was manumitted in the will of his master. [1]
North Carolina v. Negro Will: Supreme Court of North Carolina: Judge William Gaston held that slaves who killed their owner or overseer in self-defense could not be found guilty of murder, but at most manslaughter (cf. North Carolina v. Mann (1830) above) [3] [4] 1836: Commonwealth v. Aves: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court