Courtship and Love Among the Enslaved in North Carolina

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Rebecca J., Fraser	-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-12T09:10:53Z	-
dc.date.available	2018-10-12T09:10:53Z	-
dc.date.issued	2007	-
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-934110-07-2	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9815	-
dc.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	-
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Mississippi	en_US
dc.subject	Slaves— North Carolina— Social life and customs—19th century	en_US
dc.title	Courtship and Love Among the Enslaved in North Carolina	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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