For NC researchers who haven't visited Christine's Genealogy Website, here's what's going on there. http://ccharity.com ======North Carolina info========= New Book - "A Separate Canaan: The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840", by Jon Sensbach. In this carefully researched book, Jon Sensbach explores a subject that is at once unusual and timely. It is unusual in that it concerns a population that has been heretofore overlooked or ignored in African American religion--the black Moravians. It is timely because it engages some of the most fashionable themes in Southern history, such as race, culture, and religion, using a fresh and nuanced approach. > Report of outrages committed by the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina - "The family of Daniel Blue, colored, murdered in Moore County. Blue was wounded and escaped. His wife was killed. She was heavy with child. His five other children were murdered, the house set on fire, and the bones of all found next morning. " > Names of persons that have been maltreated in Lincolnton, N. C. > ============ Other info============== "Last Slave Cargo", article from the Lawrence Daily Journal, December 13, 1888, contributed by Judy Sweets. Article about Umwalla, a Negro man who was one of the cargo of the Wanderer, the last slave ship to bring to this country a load of captives from Africa. > Voodoo Lives on in West Africa - If it were not for the small whitewashed Portuguese fort that nowadays serves as a museum to a trade in humans that in the last century made this town the capital of what Europeans called the Slave Coast, at first glance little would give away Ouidah's place in history. But at the price of 1.5 million souls tallied by slavers as "pieces of ebony" and shipped from here in bondage, perhaps no place in Africa has exported so much to the culture of the United States and much of the rest of the Western Hemisphere. > The Night the Stars Fell - Anyone who has studied the history of American slaves in 1800's is familiar with the incident in the early part of the century, known as "The Night the Stars Fell." > What's New at the Freedmen's Bureau Online http://freedmensbureau.com ==================================== Names of Freedmen to whom grants of land have been furnished on Jehosse Island, South Carolina - Names of Freedmen who have been furnished certificates of Land on the Plantation of William Aikens, Jehosse Island. The parties holding these grants formerly belonged to Gov. Aiken and have always lived on Jehosse. Michael Dennis' Letter to the Freedmen's Bureau, naming the freed populations of two plantations in Early County, Georgia in November 1865 - Contribution and Introduction by David E. Paterson - "This letter is, perhaps, unique because it names the freed populations of two plantations in Early County in November 1865. One of the plantations was owned by Michael Dennis, the other was controlled by Dennis as administrator of the Thomas C. Grimes estate. The people are described by name, age, and fitness for farm labor." ======================================== Censuslinks has grown to over 5,000 links to census transcriptions, marriage records, death records and miscellaneous lists of names - check it out at http://censuslinks.com (This information comes from Christine Charity at www.ccharity.com) Marian Douglas, researching my western NC families: G*U*D*G*E*R, R*I*C*E, K*E*I*T*H*, W*A*L*L*E*N, Y*O*U*N*G dasha@unet.com.mk - near Kosovo