These documents are financial accounts detailing the sale of a group of sixty-one enslaved people and their buyers, referenced as "negroes" who are named in the document as well as lands owned by the estate of Thomas Farr.
This torn newspaper clipping is written by William M. Bird, Jr. describing how if the arrested men, referenced as "negroes" are hung, "it will be an outrage on humanity."
This newspaper clipping titled "The Penitentiary is the Place" discusses the arrest of eleven men, now freed slaves, referenced as "negroes," for murdering another black man.
Pattie Ann Bird's application for membership for The North Carolina Society of Colonial Dames of America. On the last page, makes notation that her ancestor Col. William Eaton "brought eleven white and twenty-three black persons into the colony of N.C."
A list of items under the title "amount brought over" with associated figures in dollars. Items include cotton, horses, corn, stone, furniture and tools.
A document with the title "Appraisal Bill of the Personal Property, Goods and Chattles of John Smith Sr, deceased. Included are the names of enslaved men and women. The slaves are listed as Theophilius, referenced as "Negro Boy," Adam, Andrew, Silvey, Celia, Mary, Hester, Lavenia and Amanda.
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