The free Negro in North Carolina
By: by R.H. Taylor
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: James Sprunt historical publications -- v. 17, no. 1
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Free African Americans; History; Legal status, laws; Freed persons; African Americans; Slaves; Emancipation; Quakers
Other titles: The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: Examines legal treatment of free blacks from the Colonial period through the early 1900's. Briefly discusses various ways a slave may have acquired freedom, and the evolution of laws regarding such issues as manumission, voting rights, civil rights, and social status. Includes numeric data charting the increase in free blacks throughout North Carolina's history, and a breakdown of the number of free blacks in each North Carolina county in 1860.
Notes: Title from electronic half title page (viewed February 27, 2003)

Electronic edition does not include Some colonial history of Craven County by Francis H. Cooper.

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.

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Transcribed from: The free Negro in North Carolina / by R.H. Taylor, A.M., Assistant Professor of History, The Citadel. Chapel Hill, [N.C.] : Published by the University, 1920. p. [5]-26 ; 23 cm. The James Sprunt historical publications ; vol. 17, no. 1. At head of title: University of North Carolina. "prepared as a thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the University of North Carolina."--P. [5].

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Manumission; title: Civil rights; title: Social and economic status.