Silent Sam's Reckoning

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memorializes 287 Confederate dead. Their families bought, sold and enslaved men, women, and children. Here are the receipts:

Vrijeme pridruživanja: siječanj 2019.

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    Let's take a moment to consider the main way , as an institution, participated in the slave trade - not just implicated in the actions of slaveowning students/faculty/administrators - but the actual buying and selling of human beings. Let's talk about the "escheat" system.

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    As we go on full strike on Monday, we need more support! The strike fund will cover the food and supplies for the picket and any potential docked pay in retaliation to the strike.

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    The historical marker for the slave auction block was taken. Unlike the Confederate monuments in our parks, which lie to us, this plaque marked an actual historical fact about the majority of our local population.

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    It's in thread, but please consider supporting comrade Maya directly via Venmo: Maya-little-1! These trials are the worst, but serve as a reminder to care for one another.

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    If you’ve been following what’s happening and if you want to support me please donate to You could also brighten my spirits by allowing me to have some money to buy books, coffee, save towards a car by sending funds to my Venmo: Maya-little-1

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    Tomorrow I likely have trial for charges made by a white supremacist who has been stalking me wrote graffiti about me @ unc and is convinced he’s going to have feds kill me. In any case I’ve actually had a good week and that’s because of the support of my friends and partner. 1

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    Several colleagues and I have created a petition urging the UNC Board of Trustees to lift its 16-year moratorium on renaming buildings named for white supremacists. For those in community, please feel free to add your name here:

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    We appreciate the support! Also, it is important to note that UNC's history of student activism was one of our primary sources for inspiration! Thank you!

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    5. velj

    students making demands including reckoning that students & faculty lynched someone in 1921. Seems too familiar to what's been going on at for years

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    Solidarity with student activists at who are holding the institution accountable for its history of institutional racism. (thread)

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    Coll’s maternal grandfather Thomas McLin enslaved 9 people in Craven Co. by 1860. He died in 1861 and his will stated that all of his property (incl. enslaved people) was to be sold off & the profits divided among his heirs. Grandson Coll is listed as a beneficiary.

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    We located two 1840 newspaper ads that show that Coll’s father Isaac W. Hughes acted as slave trader (as an executor of estates), selling at least eight unnamed enslaved individuals.

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    Coll Hughes returned home to New Bern after graduating UNC. There's no record of him practicing law. He's listed in the 1860 Census, 20yo, living in his father’s household. It is likely that he helped his father operate their large labor camp, which enslaved 66 people that year.

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    “Coll” Hughes’ father Isaac was born in Pennsylvania, educated at UPenn medical school, migrated to NC and opened a medical practice in New Bern. He sent two of his sons to UNC: Coll studied law (class of 1859) and James Bettner Hughes medicine (class of 1853).

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    Nicholas Collin Hughes, Class of 1859. Born 1840 in Craven Co., NC to Isaac W. Hughes and Eliza McLin. The Hugheses and McLins both enslaved people. Father Isaac, a physician, also operated a forced labor camp where he enslaved 66 people by 1860.

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    Battle gives no other details about the case: no names, no county, no year... (Historical erasure is a long Carolina tradition.) And he justifies selling the woman & child back into slavery b/c it would "redound to their happiness to have a master." 7/

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    UNC didn't just passively benefit from this inhumane system, it sent members of the Bd. of Trustees, as slave trading agents, to every county in NC to dig through court records looking for these cases. They then sold these human beings to the highest bidder & sent UNC the $. 6/

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    Because the woman and her infant son were still legally the father's "property" at his death, they were treated as part of his personal estate. B/c the man died without a will and w/o any legal heirs his "property" then "escheated" to the State (which, by law, meant to UNC). 5/

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    The facts of the case: an enslaved man attained his freedom. But his daughter was still enslaved, so he purchased her as a way to emancipate her. Before he was able to do this legally, she gave birth to a son, and then the man (her father) died. 4/

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    The "escheat system" established at the founding of the University in 1789 provided the legal framework that enabled UNC to sell enslaved people for fundraising. 3/

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    This entry comes from "History of the University of North Carolina" (Vol. I), written in 1907 by Kemp P. Battle - who served as president of UNC from 1876-1891. 2/

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