The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status. A Plea for Separate Schools (Electronic Edition)

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The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status. A Plea for Separate Schools (Electronic Edition)

The Seeman Printery, Durham, North Carolina
1916
65 pages

George Edwin Butler (1868-1941)

Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc.
Images scanned by Tampathia Evans
Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Tampathia Evans and Jill Kuhn Sexton
First edition, 2002

CONTENTS

  • A Petition of the Indians of Sampson County
  • HISTORICAL SKETCH
    • Historical
    • The Croatans
    • White’s Lost Colony
    • Their Wanderings and Location
    • Political and Educational History
    • First Separate Schools for Croatans
    • Marriage with Negroes Forbidden
    • Separate Schools in Other Counties
    • Separate Schools in Sampson
    • Why the Indian School in Sampson was Repealed
    • Indian Tax Payers in Sampson
    • Easily Recognized as Indians
    • They Were Never Slaves
    • Formerly Eroneously Classed as Negroes
    • Laws of State Recognize Them as Separate Race
    • State Provides Colleges for Whites and Negroes but not for Indians
    • Indians Justly Proud of Their History
    • Better Educational Facilities Should be Provided
    • Indian Taxes in Sampson
    • Sampson Exceeds all Other Counties, Except Robeson, in Indian Polls and Property
    • Family Relationship Between Robeson and Sampson Croatans
    • New Bethel Indian School
    • Shiloh Indian School
    • The Indian Photographs and Pictures
  • SKETCH OF PROMINENT INDIAN FAMILIES OF SAMPSON
    • The Emanuel Family
    • The Maynor Family
    • The Brewington Family
    • The Jones Family
    • The Simmons Family
    • The Jacobs Family
    • Indian Families of Sampson

ILLUSTRATIONS

  • The Croatan Normal School at Pembroke Frontispiece
  • New Bethel Indian School
  • Shiloh Indian Sunday School
  • Jonah Manuel and Family
  • Enoch Manuel and Wife
  • William J. Bledsole and Wife
  • Luther Bledsole and Children and Henry Bledsole and Wife
  • Hardy A. Brewington
  • Group of Boys and Girls
  • Lee Locklear, Steve Lowrey, French Locklear
  • Levander Manuel
  • June Brewington
  • C. D. Brewington
  • Jonathan Goodman
  • William Simmons
  • Betsy J. Simmons
  • Enoch Manuel, Jr., and Family
  • Henry Bledsole and Wife

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