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Just 39 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, with the “slave experience” still fresh in the memories of black Kinstonians, a number of black businesses sprang up with tenacity and industry, creating three all black business districts in Kinston.
North Carolina growers became a factor in blueberry production over 60 years ago, starting with 100 acres of the bearing bushes. Today that production has grown to over 200 harvestable acres from the coast to the mountains.
Before the war between the states was fully over, Northern Newspapers were already labeling him the “Andersonville savage” a barbarian, they sensationalized, who orchestrated “rebel brutality” against helpless Union prisoners of war (POWs).
