Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina

By: Larry J Griffin

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Paperback | 26 June 2017

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Slavery is a tragic chapter in the history of Wilkes County with a lasting legacy. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County.

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"The assiduously documented book chronicles the lives of some of the slaves and slaveholders in Antebellum Wilkes County. The histories of two families-of-color are detailed--that of the slavewoman, Judith Williams Barber and the free-person-of-color, William Henderson Waugh. Both, however, are connected through one illustrious prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leader. Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to dissever fact from myth as he investigates the "shrouded history" of slavery in the County." The Record

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