The Seeman Printery, Durham, North Carolina
1916
65 pages
George Edwin Butler (1868-1941)
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Images scanned by Tampathia Evans
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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- Why the Indian School in Sampson was Repealed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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