Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775
Title | Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775 PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin L. Michael Kay |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2000-11-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 080786238X |
Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages, naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of resistance. Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This system played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal, political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result, slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage and therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them from reliance on a worldview and value system determined by whites.
Slaveholding in North Carolina
Title | Slaveholding in North Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | Rosser Howard Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Slavery |
ISBN |
Slaveholding in North Carolina
Title | Slaveholding in North Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | Rosser Howard Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2011-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258142162 |
Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina
Title | Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | John Spencer Bassett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
Slavery in the State of North Carolina
Title | Slavery in the State of North Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | John Spencer Bassett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina
Title | Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | Larry J. Griffin |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467135836 |
Slavery is a tragic chapter in the history of Wilkes County with a lasting legacy. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County.
Slavery in the State of North Carolina
Title | Slavery in the State of North Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | John Spencer Bassett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |