Slavery in the state of North Carolina
By: by John Spencer Bassett
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Series: Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science -- 17th ser., 7-8
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Slavery; History; Law and legislation; African Americans; Legal status, laws; Slaves; Emancipation; Slave insurrections; Religious life; Social conditions
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed September 11, 2002)

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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": p. 110-111.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: General characteristics; title: 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; title: Free Negroes and emancipation; Emancipation, Free Negroes; title: Religious life; title: Industrial and social life; Population, Distribution, The regulation of the Slave's life; title: The triumph of the pro-slavery sentiment; Slave conspiracies, The growth of the pro-slavery sentiment.