21283005https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21283005North CarolinaCravenCounty521830County931830Countygranted022North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaIn 1829, twenty-one-year-old Connecticut free black Abraham Carpenter ran away from home and shipped aboard a sloop to New York City. He then boarded a schooner bound for Beaufort, North Carolina, carrying a cargo of lime "for the Fort erecting at that place." At Beaufort, he left the ship and traveled on a visit to New Bern, where he was arrested and jailed as a runaway slave. Remaining in jail "Six long and weary months," Carpenter seeks a writ of habeas corpus to prove his status as a free man.ShipsSeniors (FPOC)Occupation (FPOC)Jails/WorkhousesFreedom seekersWhipping