HISTORY OF BLACKHEAD SIGNPOST ROAD TRIAL

Powell wrote that “many negroes are killed every day. In a letter to the New York Evening Post, Reverend G. But he feels himself bound to declare, and hereby announces to the troops and citizens, that no excuse will be allowed for any similar acts of violence, after the promulgation of this order. He will not specify all the instances that he is bound to believe have occurred, but pass in silence what has happened, with the expression of his deepest sorrow, that any necessity should be supposed to have existed, to justify a single act of atrocity. General Eppes ordered troops and white citizens to stop the killing:

HISTORY OF BLACKHEAD SIGNPOST ROAD TRIAL

Such fear and alarm led to whites’ attacking blacks across the South with flimsy cause–the editor of the Richmond Whig, writing “with pain,” described the scene as “the slaughter of many blacks without trial and under circumstances of great barbarity.” Two weeks after the rebellion had been suppressed, the white violence against the blacks continued. Fears led to reports in North Carolina that “armies” of slaves were seen on highways, had burned and massacred the white inhabitants of Wilmington, a black-majority city and were marching on the state capital. Rumors quickly spread among whites that the slave revolt was not limited to Southampton, and that it had spread as far south as Alabama.

History of blackhead signpost road