Title Time full of trial : the Roanoke Island freedmen's colony, 1862-1867 / Patricia C. Click

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 302 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. This Important Victory; 2. An African Village of Grand Proportions; 3. A New Social Order; 4. Tossed Upon a Sea of Troubles; 5. Letting In the Light; 6. Stamp Down or Troden Under Feet; 7. No Foot of Land Do They Possess; 8. And the Partings Are Sad; Epilogue; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Appendix F; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary In February 1862, General Ambrose E. Burnside led Union forces to victory at the Battle of Roanoke Island. As word spread that the Union army had established a foothold in eastern North Carolina, slaves from the surrounding area streamed across Federal lines seeking freedom. By early 1863, nearly 1,000 refugees had gathered on Roanoke Island, working together to create a thriving community that included a school and several churches. As the settlement expanded, the Reverend Horace James, an army chaplain from Massachusetts, was appointed to oversee the establishment of a freedmen's colony there. James and his missionary assistants sought to instill evangelical fervor and northern republican values in the colonists, who numbered nearly 3,500 by 1865, through a plan that included education, small-scale land ownership and a system of wage labor. Time Full of Trial tells the story of the Roanoke Island freedmen's colony from its contraband-camp beginnings to the conflict over land ownership that led to its demise in 1867. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Patricia Click traces the struggles and successes of this long-overlooked yet significant attempt at building what the Reverend James hoped would be the model for "a new social order" in the postwar south Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Freed persons -- North Carolina -- Roanoke Island -- History -- 19th century Freed persons -- North Carolina -- Roanoke Island -- Social conditions -- 19th century African Americans -- Missions -- North Carolina -- Roanoke Island -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- State & Local. African Americans African Americans -- Missions Freed persons Freed persons -- Social conditions Social aspects SUBJECT North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140208 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects Roanoke Island (N.C.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89001898 Subject North Carolina North Carolina -- Roanoke Island United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 00069951 ISBN 0807875406 9780807875407 0807826022 9780807826027 0807849189 9780807849187

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