North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

292 Pages·2003·1.86 MB·English

by  William L. (ed.) Andrews, Tampathia Evans

North
Carolina
Slave
Narratives
The John Hope Franklin Series
in African American History and Culture
Waldo E. Martin Jr. & Patricia Sullivan, editors
North
Carolina
Slave
Narratives
The Lives of Moses Roper,
Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy,
& Thomas H. Jones
 . , General Editor
David A. Davis, Tampathia Evans, Ian Frederick Finseth,
and Andreá N.Williams, Editors
The University of North Carolina Press    
©  William L. Andrews
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
This book was published with the assistance of
the H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Fund
of the University of North Carolina Press.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for
permanence and durability of the Committee on
Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the
Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data
North Carolina slave narratives : the lives of Moses
Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H.
Jones / William L. Andrews, general editor ; David A.
Davis . . . [et al.], editors.
p. cm.— (The John Hope Franklin series in African
American history and culture)
Includes bibliographical references.
 --- (alk. paper)
. Slaves—North Carolina—Biography. . Slavery—
North Carolina. . North Carolina—History—–
—Biography. I. Andrews, William L., –
II. Davis, David A. (David Alexander), – III. Series.
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To the memory of Blyden Jackson
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Acknowledgments ix
General Introduction byWilliam L. Andrews 
Notes 
Suggested Reading 
A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of  
Introduction by Ian Frederick Finseth 
Note on the Text 
Notes 
Narrative 
Notes 
The Narrative of  
Introduction by Tampathia Evans 
Note on the Text 
Notes 
Narrative 
Notes 
Narrative of the Life of  
Introduction by Andreá N.Williams 
Note on the Text 
Notes 
Narrative 
Notes 
The Experience of .  . 
Introduction by David A. Davis 
Note on the Text 
Notes 
Narrative 
Notes 
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The editors are grateful to Natalia Smith, Digitization Librarian
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for her help in
preparing the illustrations for this book. David A. Davis would like
to acknowledge the following individuals and institutions for their
generous assistance in researchingThe Experience of Rev. Thomas H.
Jones: John Ernest, University of New Hampshire; William B. Gould IV,
Stanford University School of Law; Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Eli Naeher, Lower Cape Fear Historical
Society; North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill; and Robert W.Woodruff Library Special Collections,
Emory University.