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Historical Marker for the Buncombe Turnpike on Broadway near UNC Asheville
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Buncombe Turnpike on the French Broad River, NC Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, NC
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The Urban Trail
sculpture of an eagle marks the place where the Eagle Hotel once stood
at the corner of Eagle Street and Biltmore Avenue, which operated using
the labor of enslaved people. .
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1850-1860
5.1 Elaborate on economic conditions in the decade preceding the Civil War. Slavery in America is a tragic part of the American story with only dehumanizing features—separation of families, violence as a means of control, back-breaking labor, perpetual ownership passing from parent to child, and less than human legal status. Slaves were considered property just as a tract of land, a wagon, or a farm animal. This is illustrated in the Bills of Sales at the Buncombe Country Register of Deeds. Slave purchases took place person-to-person and at the Buncombe Court House on the site that is now the Vance Monument. “The Asheville News” included weekly advertising on slaves for sale, intent to purchase slaves, and reports on missing and found slaves. The mountain regions lacked the necessary flat lands for the large farm production of rice, tobacco, or cotton. Those were grown in the Piedmont and Coastal area. Slave labor in western North Carolina was more often used for:
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