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struggle4progress

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3. There have been several road segments similarly named in the US
Sun Aug 16, 2015, 02:07 AM
Aug 2015
Negro Head Road was originally the colonial stage road that ran from Point Peter in New Hanover County to Duplin County ... In Duplin County a slave called Dave, who belonged to Sheriff Thomas K. Morrisey, was tortured until he confessed to being a ringleader of a planned slave revolt ... Fearful whites reacted by seizing Dave and his alleged accomplice Jim. The two men were killed and their heads stuck on poles as a warning ... In Wilmington, 15 blacks were arrested. The 6 who were tried and convicted were killed; their heads, too, wound up on poles ... One was placed at Point Peter at the beginning of Negro Head Road ...
http://ncpedia.org/negro-head-road

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