Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #1294-z
                       MANUMISSION PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      A set of documents, 1829, pertaining to the
           conveyance under the auspices of the Yearly Meeting of
           Friends of North Carolina of a group of blacks from
           Perquimans County, N.C., to Wayne and to Washington
           countries, Ind. (authorization to travel, accounts of
           expenses, and list of names); and a six-page
           affirmation, 1778, by Josiah White and Caleb
           Trueblood, Quakers, arguing that the courts of
           Pasquotank and Perquimans counties, N.C., should
           review proceedings whereby certain blacks who had been
           manumitted had been seized and re-sold into slavery.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-Americans--North Carolina--Legal status, laws, etc.--
       History--18th century.
   Freedmen--Indiana--History--19th century.
   Freedmen--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Freedmen--North Carolina--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--
       18th century.
   Migration, Internal--United States--History--19th century.
   Quakers--North Carolina--History.
   Slaves--North Carolina--Emancipation.
   Society of Friends--North Carolina--History.
   Trueblood, Caleb, fl. 1778.
   White, Josiah, fl. 1778.

Size:  4 items (1 folder).

Provenance:    Lent for copying by Albert R. Moore of Portland,
               Me., in May 1947 and received from Charles E. Rush
               of the University of North Carolina in May 1948.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.