There are 678 slave-holders in North Carolina, owning 2,713 slaves. Most owners have fewer than five. On the coastal rice and cotton plantations, affluent landowners need many household and farm-hands. But it is different in the hilly piedmont of Mecklenburg County, where most settlers work their own farmland.Tobacco Harvest
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Tuesday, January 1, 1850