Time Full of Trial
Subtitle: The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 4, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780807826027
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil rights & citizenship; Social & cultural anthropology; Roanoke Island; History - U.S.; North Carolina - Local History; Slavery; Social conditions; History: American; North Carolina; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Social Science / African-American Studies; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - Civil War; United States - State & Local - General; 19th century; African Americans; Freedmen; History; Missions
First sentence: IN AUGUST 1870, when Peter Gallop took the census in northeastern North Carolina, very little remained of the freedmen's colony that had existed during the previous decade on Union-occupied Roanoke Island.