Title:	Courtship and Love Among the Enslaved in North Carolina
Authors:	Rebecca J., Fraser
Keywords:	Slaves— North Carolina— Social life and customs—19th century
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	Mississippi
Description:	I ’ve heard some of the young people laugh about slave love, but they should envy the love which kept mother and father so close together in life and even held them in death.”1 Alonzo Haywood’s comment refl ected on the relationship between his father, Willis Haywood, and his mother, Mirana Denson, who were both enslaved in antebellum North Carolina.2 He explained that while his father was enslaved at Falls of Neuse, he fell in love with Mirana Denson, who lived in Raleigh, “He come to see her ever’ chance he got and then they were married.” Refl ecting on the strength and sincerity of his parent’s feelings for one another he commented, “Mother died near twenty years ago and father died four years later. He had not cared to live since mother left him
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9815
ISBN:	978-1-934110-07-2
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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