. Tales and traditions of the lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896 . o were impoverished by itsdownfall would not, if they could, deprive the negro ofhis freedom. With reference to the introduction of slavery intoCarolina by the Colonial Governor, Yeamans, from Bar-badoes, in 1071, the late lamented (leorge Davis said : This seems to be a simple announcement of a verycommonplace fact ; but it was the little cloud no biggerthan a mans hand. It was the most portentous eventof all our early history. For he carried with him fromBarbadoes his negro slaves ; and that was the first intro-duction of African sla
. Tales and traditions of the lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896 . o were impoverished by itsdownfall would not, if they could, deprive the negro ofhis freedom. With reference to the introduction of slavery intoCarolina by the Colonial Governor, Yeamans, from Bar-badoes, in 1071, the late lamented (leorge Davis said : This seems to be a simple announcement of a verycommonplace fact ; but it was the little cloud no biggerthan a mans hand. It was the most portentous eventof all our early history. For he carried with him fromBarbadoes his negro slaves ; and that was the first intro-duction of African slavery into Carolina.—(Bancroft,3,170; Rivers, 109.) If, as he sat by the camp-lire in that lonely Southernwilderness, he could have gazed with prophetic visiondown the vista of two hundred years, and seen thestormy and tragic end of that of which he was then soquietly inaugurating the beginning, must he not haveexclaimed with Ophelia, as she beheld the wreck of herhearts voung love : ; O, woe is me ! To have seen what I have seen, seewhat I sim> ! 23. Hilton Park. Sust beyond Negro Head Point, on the Northeastbranch, a beautiful wooded bluff may be seen, It isHilton, named in honor of one of the three first explo-rers from Barbadoes who visited the Cape Fear in theyear 1663, which became famous in Revolutionary historyas the home of Cornelius Harnett, a prominent patriotof this section and a conspicuous, noted personage ofhis day. Until a few years ago his house, a neat Colo-nial structure, embowered by noble oaks, and subse-quently owned by the Hill family, was our most inter- 24 esting relic of Revolutionary times: bur the estatepassed into other hands, and this picturesque, historichome was demolished, to the shame of our people, whowere offered the building, as a public gift, for the costof its removal and preservation. kA perfect woman, nobly planned, whose skill andvirtues are of national reputation, and whose ancestorswere always leaders on the Cape Fear, has happily
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