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Farlow Monument, Marlboro Friends Meeting, Sophia NC., Richard Mendenhall’s Undyed Suit, Photo courtesy of Friend’s Historical Collection, Guilford College

Farlow Monument, Marlboro Friends Meeting, Sophia NC., Richard Mendenhall’s Undyed Suit, Photo courtesy of Friend’s Historical Collection, Guilford College

 
 

PART ONE: Time + Place

1. GENESIS 1

Map 1.1 Moseley Map of the Carolinas, 1733 2

Sidebar 1.1 John Wesley Stand 4

Map 1.2 Monthly Meetings in the American Colonies, 1680 and 1700 6

Map 1.3 Monthly Meetings in the American Colonies, 1740 and 1760 7

Map 1.4 From Pennsylvania to North Carolina, 1756 8

Map 1.5 Map of North Carolina with Granville Line 9

Sidebar 1.2 Seal, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 11

Sidebar 1.3 Tryon, Fanning, Husband: Later Pursuits 13-14

Map 1.6 Monthly Meetings in the United States, 1780 and 1800 20

Sidebar 1.4 Farlow Monument, Marlborough MM, Sophia, NC 22

2. JUDGES 23

Sidebar 2.1 Creative Slave Trading 24

Figure 2.1 Portrait of William Gaston (1778–1844) 26

3. NUMBERS 31

Sidebar 3.1 Robert E. Osborn: Roaming, Updated 33

Map 3.1 North Carolina Manumission Society 34

Sidebar 3.2 Tambora Eruption of 1815 35

Figure 3.1 Nathan Hunt (1758–1853) 37

Sidebar 3.3 Swaim vs. Swain 38

Map 3.2 North Carolina Manumission Society, 1817 40

Sidebar 3.4 Vestal, Elijah, and Levi Coffin 41

Figure 3.2 Benjamin Lundy (1789–1839) 45

Map 3.3 North Carolina Manumission Society, 1825 47

4. EXODUS 49

Sidebar 4.1 Moses Brown (1738–1836) 51

Map. 4.1 Anti-Slavery Societies in the United States, 1826 53

Sidebar 4.2 Passenger List for the Sally Ann, 11 June 1826 55

Chart 4.1 Contributions to NCMS from Yearly Meetings 58

Map 4.2 Resettlement of North Carolina Ex-Slaves, 1826–1832 59

Map 4.3 North Carolina Manumission Society, 1826 60

5. LEVITICUS 63

Map 5.1 North Carolina Manumission Society, 1827 67

Sidebar 5.1 Rotten and Pocket Boroughs 69

Figure 5.1 The Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch, by Edward Hicks 71

Sidebar 5.2 Strange Family Ties: Jubal Early (1816–1894) 73

Figure 5.2 Archibald DeB. Murphey (1777–1832) 74

Figure 5.3 Richard Mendenhall’s Undyed Suit 77

Map 5.2 North Carolina Manumission Society, 1831 82

Map 5.3 North Carolina Manumission Society, 1834 84

Figure 5.4 Early North Carolina Supreme Court Justices 86

6. HEJIRA 87

Figure 6.1 Logo of Guilford College 88

Sidebar 6.1 Excerpt from Benajah Hiatt’s Diary, 1826 89

Map 6.1 Aaron Hill and Joseph Henley’s Trip to Indiana, 1829 91

Chart 6.1 Destination of North Carolina Manumission Society Delegates 92

Map 6.2 Slaves and Free Persons of Color in NC, 1820 94

Map 6.3 Slaves and Free Persons of Color in NC, 1830 94

7. ACTS 95

Sidebar 7.1 Indiana as the Promised Land: Naturally, Morally, Abolitionally 96

Map 7.1 Friends Meetings in Indiana, 1834 97

Figure 7.1 The Underground Railroad, by Charles T. Webber, 1893 101

Sidebar 7.2 An Unusual Manumission 102

Figure 7.2 The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall, 17 May 1838 104

Sidebar 7.3 Hiram Mendenhall (1805–1854) 107

Sidebar 7.4 Henry Co. (IN) Female Anti-Slavery Society 108

Sidebar 7.5 The Liberty Party and the Election of 1844 109

Sidebar 7.6 Levi Coffin’s Abolition Gin 113

Sidebar 7.7 Bonine House, Vandalia, Michigan 114

Map 7.2 Black Population of Michigan and Indiana, 1840 and 1850 115

Figure 7.3 Lewelling House, Salem, Iowa 116

Sidebar 7.8 Intel Gathering for Slave Catchers 117

8. CHRONICLES I 123

Sidebar 8.1 George C. Mendenhall and Slavery 125

Figure 8.1 False-Bottomed Wagon at Mendenhall Plantation 127

Figure 8.2 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Coffin Mott 129

Sidebar 8.2 Overcoming North Carolina’s Geography 132

Figure 8.3 John Carter (1801–1892) 133

Sidebar 8.3 William Swaim, Humorist 135

9. DANIEL 139

Figure 9.1 Daniel Worth (1795–1862) 141

10. CHRONICLES II 157

Figure 10.1 William A. Graham (1804–1875) 158

Figure 10.2 Allen U. Tomlinson (1802–1879) 163

Sidebar 10.1 The Ordeal of Solomon Frazier 164

Sidebar 10.2 Confederate Prison, Salisbury, North Carolina 165

Figure 10.3 Gen. Joseph P. Johnston’s Surrender to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 171


11. REVELATION 173

Sidebar 11.1 The North Carolina Manumission Society and the Founding of the Republican Party 174

Sidebar 11.2 Break Every Yoke 182


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 183

BRANCHES 191

 
 
William Gaston, Portrait by George Cooke, copy by James Bogle, John Wesley Stand, Randolph County, NC. Photo courtesy of Randolph County Library, Asheboro, NC, Pantheon of American newspaper editors, 1885. William Penn Nixon, middle row, second from…

William Gaston, Portrait by George Cooke, copy by James Bogle, John Wesley Stand, Randolph County, NC. Photo courtesy of Randolph County Library, Asheboro, NC, Pantheon of American newspaper editors, 1885. William Penn Nixon, middle row, second from right

 

PART TWO: People

This section identifies the almost 600 delegates of the Manumission Society minutes. These names include the representatives of the female auxiliary manumission societies, and as many details for named ex-slaves associated with Manumission Society delegates. These names are indexed, including approximately 6000 names of family members who intersected the lives of the Manumission Society delegates.

Major Surnames in Biographies (Delegates and surnames mentioned five times or more)

A

  • Adams

  • Albertson

  • Allen

  • Allred

  • Andrew

  • Anthony

  • Armfield

  • Atkinson

  • Aydelott

    B

  • Baldwin

  • Bales

    (see also Beals)

  • Ballenger

  • Barker

  • Barnard

  • Beals

  • Beard

  • Beeson

  • Benbow

  • Bond

  • Bondurant

  • Bowman

  • Boyd

  • Briles

  • Brittain

  • Brookshire

  • Brower

  • Brown

  • Bunch

  • Bundrane

    (see also Bundren)

  • Bundrane

  • Burkhead

  • Burney

  • Burton

    C

  • Canaday

    (see also Kennedy)

  • Cannon

  • Carter

  • Chadwick

  • Chamness

  • Chipman

  • Clark

  • Coggeshall

  • Coltrane

  • Cooper

  • Copple

  • Cox

  • Cranford

  • Craven

D

  • Davis

  • Dennis

  • Dicks

  • Dickson

    (see also Dixon)

  • Dixon

    (see also Dickson)

  • Dobbins

  • Dodson

  • Dorsett

  • Dougan

  • Draughon

  • Duncan

    E

  • Elliott

    F

  • Farlow

  • Farrington

  • Folger

  • Frazier

    G

  • Gardner

  • Garner

  • Gibson

  • Gilbert

  • Gordon

  • Goss

  • Gossett

  • Gray

  • Green

  • Gregg

    (see also Grigg)

  • Gurley

    H

  • Hadley

  • Hammer

  • Hannah

    (see also Hanner)

  • Hanner

  • Hardister

  • Harlan

  • Harvey

  • Haworth

    (see also Hayworth)

  • Hayworth

    (see also Haworth)

  • Hendricks

    (see also Hendrix)

  • Hendrix

  • Henley

  • Hiatt

  • Hicks

  • Hill

H

continued

  • Hinshaw

  • Hitchcock

    (see also Hedgecock)

  • Hobbs

  • Hobson

  • Hockett

    (see also Hoggatt)

  • Hodgin

  • Hodgson

  • Hodson

  • Hoggatt

    (see also Hockett)

  • Holladay

  • Hoover

  • Horney

  • Hoskins

  • Hough

    (see also Huff)

  • Howell

  • Hubbard

  • Hulin

  • Hunt

  • Hussey

  • Hutchens

    (see also Hutchins)

    I

  • Iddings

  • Idol

  • Ives

    J

  • Jackson

  • Jester

  • Johnson

  • Johnston

  • Jones

  • Julian

    K

  • Kearns

  • Kellam

    (see also Kellum)

  • Kellum

  • Kendall

  • Kennedy

    (see also Canada, Canaday)

  • Kersey

  • Kinney

  • Kirkman

    L

  • Ladd

  • Lamb

  • Landreth

L

continued

  • Larrance

    (see also Lawrence)

  • Lassiter

  • Latta

  • Laughlin

    (see also Loflin)

  • Lawrence

  • Leach

  • Leonard

  • Lewelling

  • Lewis

  • Lindley

  • Linthicum

  • Linville

  • Littler

  • Loflin

    (see also Laughlin)

  • Long

  • Lundy

    M

  • Macon

  • Macy

  • Manlove

  • Marshall

  • Marshill

    (see also Marshall)

  • McCracken

  • McDorman

  • McKinney

  • McPherson

  • Mendenhall

  • Meredith

  • Miller

  • Millikan

  • Millis

  • Mills

  • Mock

  • Moffitt

  • Moon

  • Moore

  • Morgan

  • Morris

  • Morrison

  • Murray

  • Murry

    N

  • Nance

  • Needham

  • Newby

  • Newlin

  • Newman

  • Nixon

O

  • Odell

  • Osborn

    (see also Ozbun)

  • Otwell

  • Owen

    P

  • Parish

  • Parker

  • Parsons

  • Patterson

  • Pearce

    (see also Peerce, Pierce)

  • Pfaff

  • Pickett

    (see also Piggott)

  • Pidgeon

  • Pierce

  • Piggott

    (see also Pickett)

  • Pike

  • Pitts

  • Polson

  • Pope

  • Potter

  • Powell

  • Pugh

    R

  • Rayl

  • Redding

  • Reece

  • Reynolds

  • Rich

  • Robbins

  • Rounsaville

  • Rush

    S

  • Saferight

  • Sanders

    (see also Saunders)

  • Sarratt

    (see also Serat, Surratt)

  • Saunders

    (see also Sanders)

  • Serat

  • Shelly

  • Sherwood

  • Siler

  • Smith

  • Spencer

  • Spinks

  • Springer

  • Stafford

S

continued

  • Stalker

  • Stanley

  • Stanton

  • Starbuck

  • Stephens

  • Stockton

  • Stout

  • Strange

  • Stuart

  • Sullivan

  • Surratt

  • Swaim

  • Swain

  • Symons

    T

  • Talbert

  • Thomas

  • Thompson

  • Thornburgh

  • Thornbury

  • Tomlinson

  • Trogdon

  • Tulbert

  • Turner

    U

  • Unthank

    V

  • Vestal

    W

  • Walker

  • Walton

  • Weaver

  • Weisner

    (see also Weesner)

  • Welborn

  • Wheeler

  • White

  • Wiesner

    (see also Weisner)

  • Williams

  • Willits

  • Wilson

  • Winders

  • Winslow

  • Woody

  • Workman

  • Worth

  • Wright

    Y

  • Young