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The free Negro in North Carolina

Taylor, Rosser H. (Rosser Howard) 1891-1985 (Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: Examines legal treatment of free blacks from the Colonial period through the early 1900's. Briefly discusses various ways a slave may have acquired freedom, and the evolution of laws regarding such issues as manumission, voting rights, civil rights, and social status. Includes numeric data charting the increase in free blacks throughout North Carolina's history, and a breakdown of the number of free blacks in each North Carolina county in 1860.

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Physical Description: electronic resource
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Edition: Electronic edition
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.

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General Note:	Electronic edition does not include Some colonial history of Craven County by Francis H. Cooper. Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Ellen Decker. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Matthew Kern and Melissa Meeks. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940. Title from electronic half title page (viewed Feb. 27, 2003).
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Manumission -- Civil rights -- Social and economic status.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML and SGML) and images (JPEG).
Original Version Note:	Transcribed from: The free Negro in North Carolina / by R.H. Taylor, A.M., Assistant Professor of History, The Citadel. Chapel Hill, [N.C.] : Published by the University, 1920. p. [5]-26 ; 23 cm. The James Sprunt historical publications ; vol. 17, no. 1. At head of title: University of North Carolina. "prepared as a thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the University of North Carolina."--Page [5].
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.
System Details Note:	System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection.