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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. 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).

  4. History of slavery in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    e. Slavery in Virginia began with the capture and enslavement of Native Americans during the early days of the English Colony of Virginia and through the late eighteenth century. They primarily worked in tobacco fields. Africans were first brought to colonial Virginia in 1619, when 20 Africans from present-day Angola arrived in Virginia aboard ...

  5. Great Dismal Swamp maroons - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Thomas Green Clemson - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Green Clemson. Thomas Green Clemson (July 1, 1807 – April 6, 1888) was an American politician and statesman, serving as Chargés d'Affaires to Belgium, and United States Superintendent of Agriculture. He served in the Confederate Army and founded Clemson University in South Carolina. Historians have called Clemson "a quintessential ...

  7. List of freedmen's towns - Wikipedia

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    Many of these municipalities were established or populated by freed slaves either during or after the period of legal slavery in the United States in the 19th century. [3] In Oklahoma before the end of segregation there existed dozens of these communities as many African-American migrants from the Southeast found a space whereby they could ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Nat Turner's Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    e. Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. [1] Led by Nat Turner, the rebels, made up of enslaved African Americans, killed between 55 and 65 white people, making it the deadliest slave revolt for the latter racial group in ...