1767
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 908 words.
Thomas Nicholson (1715–1780), a prominent landowner, merchant, Quaker missionary, and author in Perquimans County addressed an open letter to his co-religionists a year before the Western Quarter...
1768–1773
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 1149 words.
This chapter presents extracts from the Minutes of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting from 1768 to 1773. The 1768 Meeting advised “all friends to be careful not to buy or Sell in any Case, that can be...
1772–1773
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 3595 words.
George Walton seems to have used dreams to help make or confirm life-altering decisions. Such a practice was characteristic of Quakers in particular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...
1772–1773
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 553 words.
It was standard practice among Friends when confronting difficult and controversial decisions to wait for the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to seek consensus within the affected meeting, and to...
1774
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 4434 words.
In April 1974, Thomas Newby, a prominent Quaker and member of the yearly meeting's Standing Committee, expressed his “uneasiness” to the Perquimans monthly meeting about owning slaves and asked the...
1774–1775
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 490 words.
This chapter presents extracts from the Minutes of the North Carolina Yearly Meeting of 1774 and 1775. The 1774 Meeting expressed “all friends that find themselves under a burden and uneasiness on...
1775–1777
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 7706 words.
George Walton played a leading role not only in the movement to persuade Friends to free their slaves but also in the confrontation with North Carolina's government that the manumissions...
1776
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 646 words.
Thomas Newby, who owned fourteen slaves, was one of the wealthiest men in Perquimans County in 1775. When Newby freed ten of his slaves on 3 March 1776, he had been contemplating the move for two...
1776–1789
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 2987 words.
The North Carolina Yearly Meeting set up a formal process for persuading individual Quaker slaveholders to set their slaves free. It indicated that many Friends found the decision to let go of their...
1777
in The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden
June 2010; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history of the Americas. 723 words.
Thomas Newby filed a petition to the county court for permission to free a slave called Hannah as she had “grown old.” The terms of the 1776 manumission and the circumstances of the 1777 petition to...