William henry singleton biography
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William Henry Singleton
New Bern in Craven County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
From Slavery to Freedom
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William henry singleton biography
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William Henry Singleton. From Slavery to Freedom. , During the Civil War, thousands of enslaved blacks freed themselves by escaping to Union lines. Craven County native William Henry Singleton (1843-1938) was one of them.
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According to his biography, Recollections of My Slavery Days (1922), as a child he was sold south to Atlanta but later escaped and returned to Craven County, where his mother concealed him. Finally caught, he remained on a local plantation until the war, when he accompanied a local officer as his body servant.
He escaped from slavery during the March 1862 engagement at Wyse Fork in Lenoir County and fled to the Federal army in New Bern. Singleton asserted that he helped raise black troops for the