Mar 21, 2025 | Antebellum era, Durham, Emancipation
Mary Eliza Walker, born in 1818, was enslaved by Duncan Cameron at Stagville, a plantation in Durham, North Carolina. Walker was required to join Cameron on several of his trips to Philadelphia, and, in 1848, she escaped while they were there. She was protected under...
Jan 8, 2025 | Antebellum era, Ashe, Confederate affiliation, Union affiliation
Submitted by Nancy Finney Cornish; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter & Kobe M. Brown Based on Oral Tradition and Genealogical Research This story is about my third great-grandmother, Phoebe Graybeal Eastridge. Phoebe Graybeal was born and raised in Ashe...
Oct 14, 2024 | Antebellum era, Emancipation, This Month's Featured Story, Washington
Submitted by Somerset Place State Historic Site; edited by Cheri Todd Molter In 1859, Josiah Collins III wrote a letter to Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved woman who had escaped bondage in Edenton by hiding in her grandmother’s crawlspace for seven years. Harriet...
Jul 16, 2024 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Davie, Orange
Submitted by Linda Barnette; Vetted and edited by Cheri Todd Molter; Transcriptions copied by Alisone Warlick Carr and Kobe M. Brown William H. Call was born in Davie County in 1842. His parents were Henry R. Call and Martha Frost Call. In 1861, William was a student...
May 27, 2024 | Antebellum era, Confederate affiliation, Wilson
Researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter Jesse Sharpe Barnes Jesse Sharpe Barnes was born in 1838 to Elias and Mahala Emma Sharpe Barnes of Edgecombe County, North Carolina. When he was about twelve years old, Jesse and his family moved to a plantation in Wilson...
May 10, 2024 | Antebellum era, Emancipation, Person
Copy of narrative submitted by Musette Steck; Story researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter According to the “Narrative of James Curry, A Fugitive Slave,” which was published in The Liberator on January 10, 1840, James Curry was born in 1815 in Person County,...
