Fourth Generation Inclusive

Historical Documents of Genealogical Interest to Researchers of North Carolina's Free People of Color

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Whipped to death.

BADLY WHIPPED.  – The Goldsboro’ Tribune says that a bound free negro man in Snowhill, Greene county, having been detected in stealing $200 from a Mrs. Cobb, was taken up and whipped so badly that he died. The parties have been bound over. 

Weekly Standard, Raleigh, 10 July 1861.

Death for kidnappers.

Crimes punishable with death in North Carolina for a single offence.

16. Taking a free negro or person of mixed blood out of the State with the intention to sell or dispose of him, &c.

Highland Messenger, Asheville, 13 March 1846.