Learn About the Impressment of Slaves and Native Americans in the Construction of Fort Fisher Tonight

The Federal Point Historic Preservation  Society will hold ts monthly meeting Monday, January 20, at 7:30 PM, at the History Center next to the Carolina Beach, N.C. Town Hall off US Highway 421.

Dr. Jamie Martinez will speak about the impressment of privately owned slaves and Native Americans (the Lumbee Indians) which were used to help build Fort Fisher.  Under policies instituted by the Confederacy, white Virginians and North Carolinians surrendered their control over portions of slave populations to state authorities, military officials and the national government to defend their new nation.

State and local officials cooperated with the Confederate War department and Engineer Bureau, as well as individual generals, to ensure a supply of slave labor for fortifications.

Dr. Martinez is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke where she teaches classes on the U.S. Civil War, Antebellum America, African American history, Historical methods and general U.S. history.

--Old B-R'er