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Saturday, May 18, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, African Americans, Buncombe County History, Forgotten People, Photograph Collection

“Keep My Name in Remembrance,” Dillingham: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

“Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king’s dale: …and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.” 2 Samuel 18:18 Though he died in 1838, by 1887 Absalom Dillingham managed, in his own way,
2 SamuelAbsalom AbsalomAbsalom DillinghamagricultureAppalachiaBarnardsvilleBig IvyBuncombe CountyBuncombe County Register of DeedsCaneCensusCommunitiesCommunity HistoryDaymon DillinghamDillinghamEnslaved peoplesEnslavementFamiliesFaulknerGenealogyHistoryIsaac DillinghamJessee DillinghamLocal HistoryMillsMolassesMountain MastersRebecca Foster DillinghamSlaveryUnity Dillinghamvital records
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Friday, November 01, 2013 / Published in African Americans, Events, Uncategorized

Patton Family Online Exhibit

As part of local commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Center for Diversity Education at UNC Asheville worked with the Buncombe County Register of Deeds to compile a database of documents recording the trade of people as slaves in Buncombe County.  A video created as part of this project has won two national awards. 
Buncombe County Register of DeedsEmancipation ProclamationForever FreeJames PattonJames Washington PattonSam CopeSlaveryThomas Walton Patton

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