The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden: The Quaker Struggle to Free Slaves in Revolutionary North Carolina
The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden: The Quaker Struggle to Free Slaves in Revolutionary North Carolina
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Abstract
This book presents the compelling story of colonial manumission movements among North Carolina Quakers. Embedding complete primary documents within the context of a personal interpretive analysis, the book shows how the consequences of this group's antislavery activism radiated out from a few individuals to the region, the state, and, eventually, the nation. Readers will be able to draw their own insights from the important documents presented in this book, many of them obscure or recently discovered. Through diaries, petitions, legislative debates, and letters, well-known as well as unknown players in the struggle for manumission are allowed to tell their own stories in their own words. This approach has the effect of highlighting the personal motivation of figures both prominent and obscure in the movement.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Michael J. Crawford
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Part I An Individual: George Walton Confronts Slavery
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Part II The Community
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1767: Thomas Nicholson Urges Gradual Emancipation
Michael J. Crawford
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1768–1773: Evolution of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting's Policy on Slave Trading
Michael J. Crawford
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1772–1773: Advice from London
Michael J. Crawford
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1774–1775: Evolution of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting's Policy on Slave Ownership
Michael J. Crawford
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Circa 1775: Thomas Nicholson Urges Immediate Emancipation
Michael J. Crawford
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1776: Thomas Newby's Manumission Paper
Michael J. Crawford
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1777: Thomas Newby's Petition to Free His Slave Hannah
Michael J. Crawford
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1776–1789: The Progress of Manumission
Michael J. Crawford
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1777–1797: List of Emancipated Blacks Who Were Re-Enslaved
Michael J. Crawford
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1767: Thomas Nicholson Urges Gradual Emancipation
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Part III The State: North Carolina Thwarts Quaker Manumission
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1777: An Act to Prevent Domestic Insurrections
Michael J. Crawford
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1777: The Trial of Several Negroes Manumitted by Friends
Michael J. Crawford
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1777–1778: Accounts of Sales of Blacks Emancipated by Friends
Michael J. Crawford
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1777: Friends' Reasons for Releasing Their Negroes from a State of Slavery
Michael J. Crawford
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1778: The Superior Court Annuls Re-Enslavements
Michael J. Crawford
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1779: New State Legislation Annuls the Superior Court's Judgment
Michael J. Crawford
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1779: Memorial from Friends Who Manumitted Slaves to the North Carolina General Assembly
Michael J. Crawford
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1779: Thomas Nicholson Upbraids an Informer
Michael J. Crawford
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1788: Memorial from the North Carolina Yearly Meeting to the North Carolina General Assembly
Michael J. Crawford
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1788: An Act to Amend an Act Entitled “An Act to Prevent Domestic Insurrections”
Michael J. Crawford
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1797: A Bill to Thwart Quaker Manumissions
Michael J. Crawford
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1777: An Act to Prevent Domestic Insurrections
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Part IV The Nation
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1797: Petition of Freemen
Michael J. Crawford
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1797: Congress Debates the Freemen's Petition
Michael J. Crawford
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1797: Pennsylvania Friends' Yearly Meeting Memorial to the Congress of the United States
Michael J. Crawford
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1797–1798: Congress Debates the Pennsylvania Friends' Memorial
Michael J. Crawford
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1798: The Society of Friends Reacts to the House's Rejection of Its Memorial
Michael J. Crawford
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1797: Petition of Freemen
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End Matter
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