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...
Nov 24, 2020 | Durham, Not categorized
SUBMITTED BY: Jan King (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) I copied these documents from a McAdams file found in the Ray County Genealogy Library in Richmond, Missouri. These files were just in a manilla folder in the Genealogy Library. There is a note on page...
Aug 5, 2020 | Durham, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: JC Knowles (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) In my personal library, I have a book titled Public School Education in North Carolina, which was originally published in 1916. The book was written by Edgar W. Knight, and in it, he discusses the...
