#SilentSam memorialized 287 #UNC Confederate dead. Their families bought, sold and enslaved men, women, and children. Here are the receipts: #samsreckoning
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ALT Research notes detailing the Confederate Army military service of Lucius Junius Johnson.
ALT Research notes detailing the Confederate Army military service of Lucius Junius Johnson.
ALT Findagrave.com record for Maj. Lucius Junius Johnson, born in 1822, died in March 1866. He is buried at the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery in Perquimans County, NC.
ALT Image is an infographic. Text at the top reads: @Sam_Reckoning has researched 56.4%* of the 287 men memorialized as UNC's Confederate dead. Next are five rows of Silent Sam statue silhouettes that represent each of the names that have been reckoned. There are 162 silhouettes. Next section of text reads: 46.95% of these men enslaved people. 100% of their parents enslaved people. Next section of text reads: Together, these 162* UNC Confederates and their families enslaved at least 8,021 people. *This project is ongoing. Last section of text is on a light blue bar and reads: twitter.com/sams_reckoning
ALT Image is an infographic. Text is overlayed on top of images of the Roll Of Confederate Dead marble tablets installed in UNC's Memorial Hall. Names on the tablets are highlighted in blue. Starting at the top, the first overlay text is on black bars and reads: @Sam_Reckoning has researched 56.4%* of the 287 men memorialized as UNC's Confederate dead. Next section of text is on light blue bars and reads: UNC venerates 259 of it's Confederate dead on marble tablets inside Memorial Hall. We have reckoned 149 of them. Of those 149 men, 46.3%* enslaved people. 100%* of their parents enslaved people. Next section of text is on black bars and reads: Together, these 162* UNC Confederates and their families enslaved at least 8,021 people. *This project is ongoing. Last section of text is on a light blue bar and reads: twitter.com/sams_reckoning
ALT Photo of a plaque that was on the plinth supporting the Silent Sam statue. The plaque image is of a woman in classical attire holding a sword. Her left hand is on the shoulder of a young man in a 19th century suit. He is looking up at her. On his lap is one open book; a second book appears to have fallen open to the floor, bending the pages.
ALT Screenshot of pages from a 1865 letter Guilford Nicholson wrote to Colonel Whittlesey, Assistant Commissioner for the State of North Carolina Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870. The highlighted portions of the letter detail how the Guilford, speaking for his father, believes the freed peoples in NC will not be able to support themselves, nor will the Nicholsons be able to care for them. That the freed peoples had come from Mississippi and have kin there and better opportunities to work. That, if the letter recipient is unable to help with that journey, perhaps he can help with transporting freed peoples to the western portions of NC where they had been working. A note on the backside of one page reads: Transportation could not be ordered. We did not find additional documentation to describe what happened to these freed peoples.
ALT Annotated image featuring a photo of one of the pairs of tablets titled Roll of Confederate Dead of the University of North Carolina. The name William T. Nicholson is highlighted.
ALT Annotated image featuring a photo of one of the pairs of tablets titled Roll of Confederate Dead of the University of North Carolina. The name Edward A. T. Nicholson is highlighted.
ALT Annotated image featuring a photo of the inside of the Memorial Hall Auditorium. The Tablets of UNC Confederate Dead are installed to either side of the stage.