Slave Owners' Petition about "Uncontrollable" Slaves

Slave Owners' Petition about "Uncontrollable" Slaves

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Petition to the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina dating to 1830, in which 87 slave-holding residents of Sampson, Bladen, New Hanover, and Duplin County appeal to the courts for greater enforcement against runaways, noting among other things that the slaves "go and come when and where they please and if an Attempt is made to correct them they fly to the Woods and there Continue for months and years." Handwritten in in on paper.

General Assembly of the State of North Carolina

Race and Slavery Petitions Project, Digital Library on American Slavery, University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

General Assembly, Session Records, Miscellaneous Petitions, November 1830--January 1831

2019

North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

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Petition 11283004

North Carolina, Duplin County, Sampson County, Bladen County, New Hanover County, 1830