By the middle of the nineteenth century, slavery was a foundation of North Carolina's economy and society. One-third of North Carolinians were enslaved by one-quarter of free families. In this chapter, we'll explore those inequalities and what enslavers had to do to maintain them.
Section Contents
- Distribution of Land and Slaves
- Social Divisions in Antebellum North Carolina
- Primary Source: North Carolina v. Mann, 1829
- Primary Source: The Quakers and Anti-Slavery
- Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad
- Negotiated Segregation in Salem
- Primary Source: Ned Hyman's Appeal for Manumission
- Primary Source: A Petition to Free a White Slave
- Primary Source: A Sampling of Black Codes
- Primary Source: Advertising Recapture and Sale of Enslaved People
- Primary Source: Freedom-Seekers and the Great Dismal Swamp
- Primary Source: Anti-slavery Feeling in the Mountains
