| Summary: | This collection consists of manuscript case files for 1045 cases relating to slavery and/or African Americans heard in the Supreme Court of North Carolina and its predecessor courts from 1792 until 1875. It comprises cases heard in the courts of Morganton and Raleigh. Topics covered include: slavery, slavery and agriculture, freedmen and free black settlements, the abolition movement, varieties of slave experience, urban and domestic slavery, slave testimony, resistance and revolts, master and slave relationship, female slaves, child slaves, will, contested ownership of slaves, interracial sexual relations, plantations, sale of slaves, emancipation, the US Civil War, and the American Colonization Society. It includes documents concerning cases tried by by Supreme Court Justices Thomas Ruffin, William J. Gaston, Richmond Mumford Pearson, Frederick Nash, John Louis Taylor, and Leonard Henderson.
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