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From: Martha Marble <>
Subject: [NCGREENE] Slave database, Neoheraka, CSS Hunley
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 10:32:09 -0400

Couple things of interest in the Charleston, SC paper in the past couple of
weeks.

Louisiana State University in March published an extensive file on
Louisiana Slave records on a searchable database on a CD-ROM. The database
is the result of a lifetime of research by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and has
information on more than 100,000 slaves. She did research not only in
Louisiana but in Spain, France, and Texas. According to the article,
extensive records were kept on slaves imported into Louisiana including
their birthplace, their skills, health and other records. This will be a
major tool for descendants searching for their roots.

The paper picked up the AP story on the excavation at Neoheroka (I have
seen this spelled in other ways) Fort in Greene County. This old Tuscarora
Indian site is on a farm owned by the family of Ima Mewborn as I understand
from Ima. As some of you know, this was the site of one of the worst Indian
massacres in US history and was a result of the killing of so many settlers
in what is today Craven and Jones County in 1711. The project was started
by Dr. David Phelps at ECU over 10 years ago and is worked in the summer by
John Byrd and ECU.

We thought about going up to Charleston for the raising of the CSS Hunley
but it was clear that people on shore would really not see anything so we
watched it on tv. One of the Charleston stations was onsite all morning and
it sent chills up the body when it broke the surface. It was originally
stated it would be at least a decade before the public could see it, but
there was such an outcry for immediate access, they are now saying a way
will be found to allow the public in limited numbers in to view the work in
progress.

Martha

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