{"id":709,"date":"2010-01-14T23:04:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T05:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/?p=709"},"modified":"2024-05-09T23:24:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T05:24:32","slug":"slaves-of-james-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/slaves-of-james-harrison","title":{"rendered":"Slaves of James Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the UNC Library announced the launch of a new digital collection from the UNC Southern Historical Collection. \u00a0The SHC has digitized 35+ of their collections w\/ emphasis on African-American interests.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not had a chance to fully explore everything on the site (I&#8217;m sure that will take awhile!), but a collection I quickly located of interest was that of plantation owner James Harrison, of Craven &amp; Jones counties. \u00a0According to the collection abstract he died circa 1846. \u00a0His 48-page ledger has been digitized and been made available online. \u00a0 Know what&#8217;s on page 5 of that ledger? A list of 24 enslaved person belonging to his estate and their value. \u00a0I&#8217;m not the best at reading handwriting from that era, but it appears as if the list is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silas &#8211; $500<\/li>\n<li>Mary &#8211; $450<\/li>\n<li>Harriett &#8211; $175<\/li>\n<li>Isaac &#8211; $400<\/li>\n<li>Sarah &#8211; $350<\/li>\n<li>Venus &#8211; $175<\/li>\n<li>Saunders &#8211; $400<\/li>\n<li>Eliza &amp; child &#8211; $500<\/li>\n<li>Peny Sr. &#8211; $35<\/li>\n<li>Hagar &amp; child &#8211; $450<\/li>\n<li>Eliza Jr. &#8211; $425<\/li>\n<li>Betty &#8211; $275<\/li>\n<li>Lewis &#8211; $400<\/li>\n<li>Grace &amp; child &#8211; $350<\/li>\n<li>Rachel &#8211; $375<\/li>\n<li>Leah &#8211; $425<\/li>\n<li>Ellis &#8211; $275<\/li>\n<li>Jamina &#8211; $275<\/li>\n<li>Tim &#8211; $160<\/li>\n<li>Tener &#8211; $450<\/li>\n<li>Peny Jr. &#8211; $225<\/li>\n<li>Nathan &#8211; $140<\/li>\n<li>Serina &#8211; $200<\/li>\n<li>Sutton &#8211; $100<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ledger page also indicates to whom each slave went to. \u00a0 The ledger also includes pages describing plantation life and even details on the amount of cotton picked by several named workers. \u00a0This is such a valuable resource for anyone working on their African-American history from this area. \u00a0I can&#8217;t even imagine what it would be like to find one of your ancestors listed here.<\/p>\n<p>I have added a link to this collection from the <a href=\"\/jones\/families\">Families<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the UNC Library announced the launch of a new digital collection from the UNC Southern Historical Collection. \u00a0The SHC has digitized 35+ of their collections w\/ emphasis on African-American interests. I&#8217;ve not had a chance to fully explore everything on the site (I&#8217;m sure that will take awhile!), but a collection I quickly located &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/slaves-of-james-harrison\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Slaves of James Harrison&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-websitesresources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}