“…any emancipation hereafter granted to any slave of slaves… shale be upon the expressed condition that he she or they will leave the state within ninety days from the granting thereof and never will return within the state afterwards.”
This was a law that I found that was passed through the General Assembly of North Carolina in January of 1831. We have this forced separation with in the Black population way back in the 1800’s. There is a famous quote that the Black Student Union at UNC-Charlotte always uses that say a people united shall never see defeat. This law was obviously a ploy to calm down rising tension among free blacks that help lead to the Civil War and eventually emancipation for everyone.
In what ways do African Americans allow themselves to be separated from their powerful halves. UNC-Charlotte, a PWI, is located about ten minutes from one of the best HBCU’s in the country. But yet there is still an unsaid feeling of superiority at the unranked PWI. When speaking with an early African American attendee of UNC-Charlotte, I was shocked to find out that of reasons that the school was built so far away from the middle of the city was to be away from “outside influence”. Could we as the so called educated be falling for and unconscious attempt to separate a people again?
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