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Some slave rebellions in North Carolina
In July 1775 the Pitt County Committee of Safety discovered a slave plot for an insurrection just before it was to start. A posse of one hundred men captured the suspected leaders and jailed more than forty blacks. The same month other blacks were captured along the Pitt-Craven county line. Their plan, according to the confessions (probably obtained through torture), was to “destroy the family where they lived” and then to march “from House to House (Burning as they went) until they arrived in the Back Country”A Granville County slave named Quillo had organized a massive revolt to take place in April 1794
Arrests, trials, and the execution of two slaves in Nottoway County, Va., in January 1802 proved to be the beginning of two successive waves of conspiracy scares ... White panic was especially evident in Bertie County, where 11 slaves were executed ... Altogether, about 19 slaves were executed
1805: Kinchen Massengale seeks compensation for his slave Plato, one of the ten or so slaves convicted and executed for their role in the Bertie County "rising or conspiracy of the negroes" in 1802; four or five slaves involved in the incident were convicted and "sent away" and not executed. Massengale submits that Plato was "of considerable value to him, being the only slave he possessed." Noting that the owners of said slaves not executed "have received compensation equal to their value," the petitioner "hopes your Honourable Body will take his hard case under your serious consideration (he being in indigent circumstances) and grant him such relief as you in your wisdom may think proper."
... in August 1831, a .. slave revolt was suspected in southeastern North Carolina. In Duplin County a slave called Dave .. was tortured until he confessed to being a ringleader ... Fearful whites reacted by seizing Dave and his alleged accomplice Jim. The two .. were killed and their heads stuck on poles ... In Wilmington, 15 blacks were arrested. The 6 who were tried and convicted were killed; their heads, too, wound up on poles ...