Tuscarora captives sold into slavery after Nooherooka (Greene County, NC, March 1713)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1713 · Places: Carolinas, Africa
SUMMARYTuscarora captives sold into slavery after Nooherooka (Greene County, NC, March 1713) [Connections: Carolinas, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDThe NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources says the Tuscarora stronghold of Neoheroka (Nooherooka) fell on March 23, 1713, to Colonel James Moore's combined force of North and South Carolina militia and allied Indians. "As a result of the action, 950 Indians were killed or captured," and "An additional 1,000 Tuscaroras were sold into slavery" (the 1,000 figure is for the war as a whole). Wikipedia's Fort Neoheroka entry says "approximately 400 were taken to South Carolina where they were sold into slavery."
PATTERNA whole nation's war captives went into the same Carolina slave market that held Africans
LENS (WW9)Tuscarora people went into the slave pens of Charles Town and came out on paper as "slaves," with no nation named
OPENThe two sources give different counts (400 from the battle vs. 1,000 from the war); both are estimates. Moore's own report and South Carolina sale records need deep research
SOURCEDNCR, "Culminating Battle of the Tuscarora War, 1713"; Fort Neoheroka (Wikipedia).