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Tales of Slavery Days Recall in North Carolina
In early 19th century North Carolina, slavery spread from Atlantic ports inward with New Englanders profiting from trafficking. The piece recounts abolition efforts, varied slave values, and the mixture of races, noting coastal plantation labor and a 1861 Roanoke River meeting where planters briefly discussed offering NC to Louis Napoleon as a French protectorate, a plan that went nowhere.
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Sir John Yeamans
North Carolina
Old Brunswick
Wilmington
Fort Fisher
John
Washington
Gulf of Mexico
South Atlantic
Norfolk
Florida
New
New England
South
South Carolina
Roanoke River
Scotland Neck
Louis Napoleon
Mexico
Dr. Wood
United States
Matt W. Ransom