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  2. History of slavery in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Slavery was legally practiced in the Province of North Carolina and the state of North Carolina until January 1, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Prior to statehood, there were 41,000 enslaved African-Americans in the Province of North Carolina in 1767. By 1860, the number of slaves in the state of ...

  3. Slavery in the colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first European colonists in Carolina introduced African slavery into the colony in 1670, the year the colony was founded, and Charleston ultimately became the busiest slave port in North America. Slavery spread from the South Carolina Lowcountry first to Georgia, then across the Deep South as Virginia's influence had crossed the ...

  4. Great Dismal Swamp maroons - Wikipedia

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    Related ethnic groups. African-Americans, Gullah, Black Seminoles, maroons. The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the swamplands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement. Although conditions were harsh, research suggests that thousands lived there between about 1700 and the 1860s.

  5. List of plantations in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Built from 1776 to 1863. The following table shows the plantations in North Carolina that were built between 1776 and the end of the Civil War. /  35.83750°N 77.621806°W  / 35.83750; -77.621806  ( Adelphia Plantation) /  36.05333°N 78.19583°W  / 36.05333; -78.19583  ( Archibald H. Davis Plantation) Built in 1820 (about).

  6. Tuscarora War - Wikipedia

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    This was considered the bloodiest colonial war in North Carolina. [1] [page needed] The Tuscarora signed a treaty with colonial officials in 1718 and settled on a reserved tract of land in Bertie County, North Carolina. The war incited further conflict on the part of the Tuscarora and led to changes in the slave trade of North and South Carolina.

  7. African Americans in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Slavery has been part of North Carolina's history since its colonization by white Europeans in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Many of the first black enslaved people in North Carolina were brought to the colony from the West Indies , but a significant number were brought from Africa.

  8. African-American slave owners - Wikipedia

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    By 1830, there were 3,775 black (including mixed-race) slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves, which was a small percentage of a total of over two million slaves then held in the South. [ 5] 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. However, The first "documented slave ...

  9. What is an HBCU? A look at North Carolina’s historic Black ...

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    It’s the #4 Most affordable online school in North Carolina according to AffordableSchools.net. It has a 17 to 1 student to faculty ratio. Address: 1200 Murchison Road, Fayetteville, NC 28301