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Slavery in the state of North Carolina [electronic resource] / by John Spencer Bassett.

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  • Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
  • Edition: Electronic ed.
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.

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General Note:
Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Tampathia Evans. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc. and Natalia Smith.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Sept. 11, 2002).
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: General characteristics -- Legal status of the slave; The slave in court, Runaways, The slave's right to hunt, The slave's right to travel and trade, The slave's right to life -- Free Negroes and emancipation; Emancipation, Free Negroes -- Religious life -- Industrial and social life; Population, Distribution, The regulation of the Slave's life -- The triumph of the pro-slavery sentiment; Slave conspiracies, The growth of the pro-slavery sentiment.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML and SGML) and images (JPEG).
Original Version Note:
Transcribed from: Slavery in the state of North Carolina / by John Spencer Bassett, Ph. D. (J.H.U.) Professor of History and Political Science, Trinity College (North Carolina). Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1899. 111 p. ; 24 cm. Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; Series XVII, no. 7-8 "Authorities": pages 110-111.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.
System Details Note:
System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection.
Subject: African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > North Carolina.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > North Carolina.
Enslaved persons > Legal status, laws, etc. > North Carolina.
Enslaved persons > Religious life > North Carolina.
Enslaved persons > North Carolina > Social conditions.
Slave rebellions > North Carolina.
Slavery > Law and legislation > North Carolina.
Slavery > North Carolina > History.