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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

In 2006, Jennifer Farley was site manager at Historic Stagville State Historic Site, a site of seventy-two acres in the Durham area.

Resources created by Jennifer Farley

A forced migration
In Colonial North Carolina, page 4.3
The first Africans, brought to America through forced migration, came as indentured servants to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. Africans brought to the colonies in later years were bought and sold as slaves. At the time of the American Revolution, most of the enslaved people in North Carolina lived in the eastern part of the colony and the majority lived on large plantations, where their work was critical to the state’s cash crops and economy.
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By Jennifer Farley.