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Slave quarters at Horton Grove for the Stagville plantation, built by slaves and occupied until the 1870s. 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.
Fifteen states (in order of admission, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, and Texas) never sought to end slavery, and thus bondage and the slave trade continued in those places, and there was even a movement to reopen the ...
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...
Horton Grove was an area of houses for enslaved African-Americans at the 30,000-acre (120 km 2) Bennehan-Cameron plantation complex, which included Stagville Plantation in the northeastern part of Durham County, North Carolina. The slaves who lived at Horton Grove were held by the influential Bennehan and Cameron families.
History of slavery in North Carolina; History of slavery in North Dakota; History of slavery in Nebraska; Slavery in New Hampshire; History of slavery in New Jersey; History of slavery in New York (state) History of slavery in New Mexico
Undated photos of two of the residents of Stagville, born into slavery: left, Doc Edwards, born 1850; and Amy Shaw, right, born 1850. Above photo is of some of the four still standing slave cabins ...
Map of the United States c. 1849 (modern state borders), with the parallel 36°30′ north—slave states in red, free states in blue This 1856 map shows slave states (gray), free states (pink), U.S. territories (green), and Kansas in center (white) with parallel 36°30′ north prominently indicated.
This rebellion prompted Virginia and other slave states to pass more restrictions on slaves and free people of color, controlling their movement and requiring more white supervision of gatherings. In 1835, North Carolina withdrew the franchise for free people of color, and they lost their vote.