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Pretend that always been a progressive city. I think is one radio host put, you can up at something behind you if you dont put it in front of you first. In 1898, wilmington achieved a very interesting status. This was a huge slaveholding area before the civil war because of the river, which is back there about a block away. All of the plantation in North Carolina were along the river. A huge concentration of the 330,000 slaves in North Carolina in 1860 or right here. Theres always the fear of a slave uprising. The terrible nightmare, if you will, of the land. They had repressive laws against both free blacks and slaves. And when general sherman came and invaded North Carolina from the south, he had liberated some 25,000 enslaved blacks with the army. He got to the head of navigation of the river, fayetteville, and put all of those people on flat boats in the and brought them to wilmington where they were then processed down to the freedmens bureau. A great many of them stayed here. 189

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