{"id":11216,"date":"2019-02-25T16:39:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/?p=11216"},"modified":"2024-05-02T15:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T19:18:33","slug":"africa-to-carolina-explores-the-legacy-of-slavery-in-coastal-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/2019\/02\/africa-to-carolina-explores-the-legacy-of-slavery-in-coastal-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAfrica to Carolina\u201d Explores the Legacy of Slavery in Coastal North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/a_c_banner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11218 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/a_c_banner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/a_c_banner.png 740w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/a_c_banner-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/a_c_banner-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/a_c_banner-240x135.png 240w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/a_c_banner-315x177.png 315w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/a_c_banner-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/currents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/02\/a_c_banner-705x397.png 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a>The North Carolina African American Heritage Commission&#8217;s \u201cAfrica to Carolina\u201d initiative serves to identify, mark and develop resources related to state primary sites where enslaved Africans arrived. Eight North Carolina port cities have been identified as such sites: Port Bath, Port Beaufort, Port Brunswick, Port Currituck, New Bern, Port Plymouth, Port Roanoke and Wilmington.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission and several partners will hold community meetings and gather feedback from the public regarding the outcomes of the initiative, as well as to discuss the impact of slavery\u2019s legacy on the state. All meetings begin at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday, Feb. 26, in the Visitors Center Auditorium at the Bath State Historic Site, in Bath\n<ul>\n<li>Partner: Bath State Historic Site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, Mar. 5, at the Vernon James Center, in Plymouth\n<ul>\n<li>Partner: Somerset Place State Historic Site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, Mar. 14, in the Cullman Performance Hall at the North Carolina History Center, in New Bern\n<ul>\n<li>Partner: Tryon Palace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, Mar. 26, in Room S-002 of the McLeod Building at Cape Fear Community College, in Wilmington<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Information courtesy of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdcr.gov\/news\/press-releases\/2019\/01\/17\/nc-african-american-heritage-commission-launches-%E2%80%9Cafrica-carolina%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources<\/em><\/a><em> and the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/aahc.nc.gov\/programs\/africa-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\"><em>North Carolina African American Heritage Commission<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Carolina African American Heritage Commission&#8217;s \u201cAfrica to Carolina\u201d initiative serves to identify, mark and develop resources related to state primary sites where enslaved Africans arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[690,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-currents","category-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - 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