September 5, 1844 to April 8, 1848

ORANGE, North Carolina

Westward Expansion, Slavery, Migration, slavery, runaway

One of the more striking aspects of the Cameron plantation letters is the account they offer of the exportation of slave life from the areas of initial settlement on the Atlantic seaboard beyond the Appalachian mountains into the old Southwest and the Mississippi. Ira Berlin's Many Thousands Gone and Generations Of Captivity trace this development to the period of the American Revolution, when British...