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John Spencer Bassett as a Historian of the South

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20026
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John Spencer Bassett was a well-respected historian of his time and dedicated a great deal of his work to the study of North Carolina history. His doctoral work at John Hopkins University was entitled, The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina, and later he published several books including; Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina, Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina, and Slavery in the State of North Carolina. The author looks at these works about the state, Bassett's further research into Southern history, and his overall career as a historian.
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