Record #:

21368

Author(s):

Steelman, Lala Carr

Abstract:

Elias Carr was a renaissance man in North Carolina during the 19th century in which he was a prosperous planter, agricultural political leader, democrat and Governor of North Carolina. During this period, he also kept an estate in Edgecombe County, Bracebridge Hall, which maintained a flourishing environment before and after the Civil War. Carr was able to maintain this prosperity by avoiding common pitfalls of the time such as one-crop farming, sharecropping, labor unrest, and financial failure by diversifying his farming operations, paying employed workers good wages, partaking in fair labor practices and using modern farming techniques.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 57 Issue 1, Jan 1980, p17-42 , il, por, f

Subject(s):

North Carolina--Agriculture