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The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, [6] was a municipal-level coup d'état and a massacre that was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. [7]
Peter Churchill was a runaway prisoner of the American Civil War.He tells that "26 Reg. U.S. Col. Troops were encamped on Nigger head road – about the boundary of the City of Wilmington N.C.", and that they remained there from the time that he got to Wilmington in July 1864 to the end of the war, in May 1865.
After the violence, Wilmington's population went from majority Black to majority white nearly overnight, and 1898 remains the only known violent overthrow of a local government in American history ...
Slavery in the state of North Carolina (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1899) online. Bassett, John Spencer. Anti-slavery leaders of North Carolina (Johns Hopkins Press, 1898) online; Bellamy, Donnie D. "Slavery in Microcosm: Onslow County, North Carolina." Journal of Negro History 62.4 (1977): 339–350. online; Cecelski, David S.
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1526. The first African slaves in what would become the present day United States of America arrived on August 9, 1526, in Winyah Bay, South Carolina. Spanish explorer Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón led around six hundred settlers, including an unknown number of African slaves, in an attempt to start a colony.
In 2003, 2008 and 2011, according to past StarNews stories, residents of Maffitt Village during the 1940s and ’50s held neighborhood reunions, with the one in 2003 drawing more than 250 people ...
The George Davis Monument is a monument to attorney and Confederate politician George Davis that was erected in Wilmington, North Carolina by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was removed by the City of Wilmington in August 2021. Davis, a railroad attorney and minor local figure before the war, was a pro-Union member of the Whig Party.