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...
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...
May 20, 2024 | Breaking News, Emancipation, News
Save the Date! Please join us on Monday, June 17, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. at Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, 1217 Murchison Road (across the street from Fayetteville State University) for our annual Hari Jones Memorial Juneteenth Lecture. This event is free of...
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,...
Mar 8, 2024 | Antebellum era, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Washington
Edited by Cheri Todd Molter and Kobe M. Brown The following information was derived from the NC Historical Site marker entitled “Freedom Seekers of Somerset Place: Rebecca Hathaway Drew” at Washington County: During the antebellum years, many enslaved people in North...
Feb 13, 2024 | Antebellum era, Emancipation, Guilford, This Month's Featured Story
Written by Cheri Todd Molter In his article entitled “Hidden Figure: How a Black Washerwoman Helped Free 15 Slaves,” Ross Howell, Jr. writes, “We don’t know where ‘Vina’ was born or how she died. We have no likeness of her—no etching or drawing. Yet a Guilford College...
