Insurrection in Currituck

This text is part of the Teaching Hard History Text Library and aligns with Key Concept 7.

INSURRECTION IN CURRITUCK.  

A gentleman who has just returned from the lower counties, informs us that a slave insurrection had taken place in Currituck county. The particulars, as far as we have been able to ascertain them, are as follows: One morning last week a gentleman of that county found that all his slaves had left his place, with the exception of one boy, who, on being questioned, and to escape punishment for some negligence, informed his master that the negroes had gone off with some Irishmen, employed on the A. & C. Canal, for the purpose of gaining their freedom. The gentleman immediately informed his neighbors, who hastily collected and went after the fugitives. They found them encamped near the Canal and attacked them. In the fight which ensued, two of the villainous Irish instigators were killed, and a number of the combatants were wounded. After a desperate resistance, the party were captured, and lodged in the Currituck jail. 

If this rumor be true, the foul abolition instigators should each be speedily “swung up.” Such unholy and mad efforts as the Abolitionists are now making tend but to injure the welfare of the slaves, and will meet with condemnation from every true friend of the African race.— Gatesville Family Visitor.