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    Slave Resistance

     

    Slave Coffle Rebellion:  Southampton County, 1799

     

    Murder of an Overseer:  Southampton County, 1802

     

    Arson and Murder: Southampton County, 1821

     

    Assault with an Axe: Southampton County, 1830


    Runaway Advertisements: North Carolina and Virginia

     

    Slave Song:  "Come Down and Trouble the Water"

    "[D]uring the last fishing season he frequently heard the prisoner at the bar say that if James Powell whipped him that he would be damned if he, the prisoner, did not kill him."

    - Testimony of Miles (slave), Trial of Abel for murder, Southampton County, 1821

     

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