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| Thursday, 17 December 2009 06:50 |
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In a two-part effort, students in a recent graduate course taught at North Carolina State University conducted individual inquires about the life of slaves on the Cameron Plantations in Orange County, North Carolina and Greene County, Alabama. The final products two two forms. Students posted to a online community ning website. These sixteen posts are available online at http://plantation.ning.com/profiles/blog/list. Look for post dated between October 25, 2009 and November 7, 2009. Students then transformed their work into historical episodes and posted these essays to The history Engine at University of Richmond. The essays are online at http://historyengine.richmond.edu/courses/view/38. This work makes use of a collection of digital historical resources digitized at North Carolina State under the direction of Dr. Kevin Oliver called Plantation Letters, online at www.plantationletters.com In one of these essays, Lindsey Ferguson examined the migration of enslaved people in the south. The central argument is that the movement of enslaved people from place to place in the south was disruptive and harmful; what Ira Berlin (2003) called a Second Middle Passage. Lindsey examined evidence of slave migration on the Cameron plantation holdings from Orange County, North Carolina to Greene County, Alabama. Following this interpretation, Lindsey developed an essay on a single episode focused on Paul Cameron's efforts to move of a large number of his slaves from North Carolina to Alabama in 1846.
Berlin, Ira. Generations of Captivity: A History of African American Slaves. (2003) ISBN 0-674-01061-2. |
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