Rose, Ned, Nancy: The lost names and stories of Raleigh's enslaved community |
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Written by Member Services
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Sunday, February 07, 2021 12:00 AM |
Updated February 7, 2021, 7:15 am, by Heather Leah for WRAL.com.
Rose, Ned, Nancy: The lost names and stories of Raleigh's enslaved community
There's so much we don't know about the community of enslaved workers who helped build the earliest foundations of Raleigh. Records are often sparse. Likely thousands of names and faces have faded from history, their stories never recorded.
To accurately tell the history of Raleigh, we need to talk about the people who built it – both enslaved and free.
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