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Nov 24, 2018 · In “Princeton and Slavery,” Lesa Redmond goes on to note that John Witherspoon’s son, David Witherspoon, inherited Pembroke and 113 enslaved people near New Bern when he and Mary Jones Nash wed in 1788.
- Jones County
Posts about Jones County written by David Cecelski. Here on...
- Halifax County
As I look through the historical collections at the National...
- Chowan County
Posts about Chowan County written by David Cecelski....
- Craven County
The sit-ins in New Bern began on March 17, 1960. Led by the...
- Listening to History
For many years, I traveled across North Carolina listening...
- April
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- Jones County
- White, Black, Indian
- Shifting Politics
- Systemic Barriers and Changes
- ‘Swept Under The Rug For Decades’
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Ronnie Chavis, 71, remembers accompanying his grandfather to the local market to sell tobacco grown on the family farm. He had to use the restroom during one trip. The letters on the doors – W, B, I – confused him, so he picked the cleanest one. When he came out, two white farmers were waiting. “Boy, you can’t read,” one of the farmers said. “What ...
Over the years, most people of all races in Robeson County have had at least two things in common: poverty and politics. The county’s median household income in 2019 was less than $35,000, far below the statewide figure of $57,000. About 28% of people in Robeson lived in poverty that year – more than double the national rate. Watson said a lack of ...
Eddie Hatcher and Timothy Jacobs walked into the Robesonian newspaper office on Feb. 1, 1988, and chained the door behind them. Armed with guns, they took 17 people hostage. Their goal was to shine a national spotlight on what they said was the unfair treatment of Blacks and Native Americans by the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office. They wanted Huber...
Nobody seems to talk about racism in Robeson County. There are few avenues to bring a diverse group of people together to discuss it. Watson, the NAACP leader, said change must begin with county commissioners and other elected leaders. “If leadership is not really into bringing people together,” he said, “it’s not going to ever get any better.” In ...
A SWAT team with the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed Matthew Oxendine, a Lumbee, on Jan. 9, 2021. Oxendine struggled with addiction and mental illness, his family said, and he had a history of calling 911 when he drank alcohol or used drugs. That night, deputies found Oxendine sitting in a PT Cruiser parked outside a relative’s home...
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.
This beautiful land of peaks and valleys and forests and flowers was the last area of North Carolina to be settled by European Americans. European Migration. The most prominent Native Americans to settle in the mountains of western present-day North Carolina were the Cherokee Indians.
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke is an important academic institution in Robeson County. Created in 1887 by the North Carolina legislature, the school’s original purpose was for “establishing and maintaining a school of high grade for teachers of the Croatan race in North Carolina.”
The "peculiar institution" of slavery was very widespread in antebellum North Carolina and the other southern states. In fact, by the end of the antebellum period in 1861, more than one out of every three North Carolinians was an enslaved black person.
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Jan 1, 2005 · Draws upon 17th- and 18th-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, slave and free, in North Carolina through 1800. The documents are used to outline the arrival of Africans, mechanisms for maintaining the yoke of slavery, slave resistance, manumission, and the challenges facing free blacks. This book presents in an accessible ...
