Bondage

Bondage (HM67A)

Location: Manteo, NC 27954 Dare County
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Country: United States of America
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N 35° 55.67', W 75° 43.418'

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and they made their lives
bitter with hard bondage

? ? ? ? ? Exodus 1:14

For the millions of immigrants to this land, America has not been so much a destination as a promise: a promise of equality, a promise of self-determination and a promise of a better life for self and children. Not so for the slave.

With their arrival at the Jamestown colony in August of 1619, twenty captive Africans began a legacy of chattel bondage that by 1860 would include 15 states, 4 territories and the District of Columbia, with 3,952,760 enslaved.

Although mindless labor, physical abuse, and family destruction were typical of slave life, there was yet a greater tragedy. It was the slaves' agony to witness the promise of America enjoyed by others, to help build that promise and be denied its fruits. This indeed may have been the greatest horror of slavery.

You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast to my chains and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom's swift winged angels, that fly around the world; I am of iron! O that I were free!
? ? ? ? ? Frederick Douglass Narrative

The dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute.
? ? ? ? ? Frederick Douglass Narrative
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HM NumberHM67A
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Placed ByFort Raleigh National Historic Site, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
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Date Added Wednesday, September 10th, 2014 at 4:35pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 434720 N 3976186
Decimal Degrees35.92783333, -75.72363333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 35° 55.67', W 75° 43.418'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds35° 55' 40.20" N, 75° 43' 25.08" W
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Area Code(s)252
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 47414 US-64, Manteo NC 27954, US
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