This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hertford has changed and developed over the last century.

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hertfordshire has changed and developed over the last century.

When Hertford County was established in 1759, Eastern North Carolina had served as a home to African Americans for more than 170 years. Over time free blacks an

Before the outbreak of the Civil War, Hertford County had one of the largest populations of free people of color in North Carolina. Although they lived in a rur

In North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “neg