--part1_36f50a7c.24bd4fbe_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fellow Byrd Researchers: I thought the attached would be of interest. I have Quakers in NC. I am curious about who author William Byrd III is. I will ask my ex-spouse of a Westover Byrd tomorrow. Janet Hunter --part1_36f50a7c.24bd4fbe_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <NCBERTIE-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from aol.com (rly-yg03.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.3]) by air-yg04.mx.aol.com (v60.14) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:26:13 -0400 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by rly-yg03.mx.aol.com (vx) with SMTP; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:25:58 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA14916; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907140124.SAA29874@bl-3.rootsweb.com> X-Sender: crilley@eramp.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Old-To: NCBERTIE-L@rootsweb.com From: Crilley <crilley@eramp.net> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 99 20:30:06 CST Subject: [NCBERTIE-L] Emancipation Book Resent-Message-ID: <KmeS4B.A.DoD.rb-i3@bl-11.rootsweb.com> To: NCBERTIE-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: NCBERTIE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <NCBERTIE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1954 X-Loop: NCBERTIE-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: NCBERTIE-L-request@rootsweb.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Book Title: In Full Force and Virtue: North Carolina Emancipation Records > 1713 to 1860 -- By William L. Byrd III. > > Five years in the making. These records contain a wealth of information > wherein Masters expostulate to the court the reasons for wishing to free > their slaves. The petitions reveal relationships between diverse cultures > and races, and many of them depict those relationships on an intimate > level. Long obscure, these records have mostly remained out of reach of > the general public. The purpose o f this book is to make them available to > laymen and scholars alike. > The sad plight of the slaves is brought to life by these recorded pleas > for liberation. Many petitions pertain to enslaved Indians, particularly > Indian women and children. East Indians and West Indians are also > represented in these transcriptions. Indian slavery was one of the most > pressing grievances of Native Americans located in the State of North > Carolina. > These records are full transcripts -- not abstracts. They contain the > full text of each of the emancipation records. These transcriptions from > the North Carolina State Archives are grouped by county: BERTIE, Buncombe, > Caswell, Chatham, Chowan, Craven, Cumberland, Duplin, Edgecombe, Franklin, > Gates, Granville, Guilford, Halifax, Lincoln, New Hanover, Orange, > Pasquotank, Perquimans, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, Wake, Warren, > Wayne and Wilkes. Supplemental sections containing acts of emancipation by > the General Assembly, emancipation laws, Quaker documents, and a full name > plus subject index are included. 1999, 358 pp., 8.5x11, paper, $54.00 > #B961 > Pre-Publication price until 31 August 1999--$4850 > $4.00 Shipping & Handling > Order from: Heritage Books, Inc. > 1540-E Pointer Ridge Place > Bowie, MD 20716 Virginia ==== NCBERTIE Mailing List ==== Check out the Bertie Co USGenWeb Archives:http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/ncfiles.htm --part1_36f50a7c.24bd4fbe_boundary--