Jan 15, 2022 | Cumberland, Emancipation, Reconstruction
SUBMITTED BY: Sarah Foster (edited by Cheri Todd Molter) Editor’s Notes: According to the information shared during T. Pat Matthew’s interview with John C. Becton [his name was misspelled “Bectom” on that record], Mr. Becton was born on October 7, 1862, near...
Jul 19, 2021 | Emancipation, New Hanover, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Baylor Hicks; article written by Melissa De Witte; excerpt edited by Cheri Todd Molter A Note from Baylor Hicks: Bill Gould (William Gould IV) was one of my professors at Stanford Law School. I knew that his great-grandfather was a contraband in the...
Sep 29, 2020 | Confederate affiliation, Emancipation, Sampson
SUBMITTED BY: Eddie White (transcribed by Cheri Todd Molter and Carolina Echeverri) These pictures are of an order granting permission for John N. Jackson to sell Hariet and her son, Thomas, who were two individuals who were enslaved by Jackson’s ward, Mary J. Bagget...
Aug 5, 2020 | Emancipation, Halifax, Reconstruction
We would like to highlight the life of Andrew Joshua Jackson (1830 -1924), who is one of the most interesting and notable African Americans to live in Halifax, North Carolina. Jackson was born enslaved on Christmas day in Amherst County, Virginia. When he was 4 years...
May 6, 2020 | Chowan, Emancipation, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Dr. Juanita Patience Moss (edited and vetted by Cheri Todd Molter) (Click on photos below to enlarge.) Thomas D. Lawrence Jr., born enslaved in Edenton, North Carolina, circa 1836 and dying there in 1929, was the son of Thomas D. Lawrence Sr. and his wife...
Feb 10, 2020 | Cumberland, Emancipation, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Dr. Algeania W. Freeman (researched and written by Cheri Todd Molter) The Woodard story is also told in “Black River” (a historical fiction novella written by Algeania W. Freeman, PhD). Much of this story is based on the oral history passed down through...
