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"Slave Conspiracies in North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 5.1 (1928): 20–34. online; Vollmers, Gloria. "Industrial slavery in the United States: the North Carolina turpentine industry 1849–61." Accounting, Business & Financial History 13.3 (2003): 369–392. Yanuck, Julius. "Thomas Ruffin and North Carolina Slave Law."
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...
Fifteen states (in order of admission, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, Florida, and Texas) never sought to end slavery, and thus bondage and the slave trade continued in those places, and there was even a movement to reopen the ...
There are 22 Interstate Highways—9 primary and 13 auxiliary—that exist entirely or partially in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of January 2020, the state had a total of 1,410 miles (2,270 km) of Interstates and 70 miles (110 km) of Interstate business routes, all maintained by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT).
“The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots” offers a harsh indictment of slavery and American democracy. An NC slave’s forgotten story reappears after a century, speaking ...
The North Carolina Highway System consists of a vast network of Interstate, United States, and state highways, managed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. North Carolina has the second largest state maintained highway network in the United States because all roads in North Carolina are maintained by either municipalities or the ...
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The internal slave trade in the United States, also known as the domestic slave trade, the Second Middle Passage [1] and the interregional slave trade, [2] was the mercantile trade of enslaved people within the United States. It was most significant after 1808, when the importation of slaves from Africa was prohibited by federal law.