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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.
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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.
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Related Entries: Cherokee Indians;Asheville; Regions by Ron Holland Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian. Spring 1995; Revised October 2022. Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, NC Museum of History With some of the oldest and most complex geographical formations on earth, the Mountain Region of western North Carolina has ...
The most prominent Native Americans to settle in the mountains of western present-day North Carolina were the Cherokee Indians. Their first known contact with Europeans occurred in 1540, when Spanish explorer Hernando de Sotoand his men came to the mountains in search of gold. Following this brief encounter, the Cherokee and Europeans had limited c...
A small number of enslaved black people were brought into the Mountain Region to work some of the larger farms. Robert Love of Haywood County, for example, owned one hundred enslaved people. But his case was an exception. Most farms were small and self-sufficient. Largely because traveling and getting crops to market were difficult and expensive on...
Problems with travel and trade changed with the completion of the Buncombe Turnpike in 1827. The turnpike followed the French Broad Rivernorth of Asheville to reach Greeneville, Tennessee. South of Asheville, the turnpike continued to Greenville, South Carolina. The turnpike was a better road than previous roads in the Mountain Region, which usuall...
During the first three decades of the 1800s, economic and political conditions were poor. A steady stream of emigrating North Carolinians passed through the Mountain Region headed for points west. North Carolina political conditions were affected by sectionalism, or conflict between the eastern and western sections of the state. At the time, each c...
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.
One powerful reform movement in the North called for the complete abolition of slavery in the United States. Most northern politicians, however, agreed with their southern counterparts that the federal government had no constitutional authority to abolish slavery in the existing states.
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.”
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It is far more difficult to itemize the specific ways in which Native Americans have directly shaped the course of North Carolina history. However, it would seem that the role of Indians in the state's history has been a changing one. The historic period in North Carolina spans some 450 years.
