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Caesar Mills

Caesar Mills, a formerly enslaved person of Hillsborough, had been held in slavery before emancipation by Catherine Roulhac of Hillsborough. A tintype portrait of Mills made in 1880 is in the tintype collection of the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives at UNC.

Source: UNC Libraries, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives: Tintype Collection, circa 1856-1900

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Tintype collection, circa 1856-1900.

1856

Nineteen tintypes dated roughly 1856 to 1900 in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. The tintypes include portraits of African Americans in nineteenth century North Carolina, including enslaved people, along with families, the Roulhac family, Henry Speck Harris (1837-1863), Caesar Mills, and a soldier of the 6th North Carolina Infantry of the Confederate army. Commencement at Chapel Hill and the early University of North Carolina supply the local link.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Mills, Caesar, Active 1865-1880.

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