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10383
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A rather inconspicuous man named Eli Foote is buried at Winton with two headstones from both sides of his family. Foote is the grandfather of famous author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Foote had traveled from New York to Hertford County to trade New England products in North Carolina markets. Eli and his brother Larry found strong markets for their products and decided to remain. Foote died in 1792 and was buried with a headstone from his New York family and his wife's North Carolina family.
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20826
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Elkanah Watson was a notable noted 19th century author who spent two years in eastern North Carolina as a planter-merchant. During this period, the state was grappling over the issue of ratifying the newly written constitution. The author examines primary documentation from Watson's manuscript collection to argue that the author played a significant role in supporting state Federalists and the eventual ratification of the constitution by state representatives.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 41 Issue 4, Oct 1964,
p448-463, f
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21404
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The second of three articles published under the heading \"A Forum: The Virginia-North Carolina Slave Conspiracy of 1802.\" This article disputes Douglas Egerton's thesis from his article, \"'Fly Across the River': The Easter Slave Conspiracy of 1802\", the first article of the series, stating that  the conspiracy did not originate in Halifax County, Virginia, and spread to other Virginia and North Carolina counties, rather, that the 1802 slave conspiracy consisted of a series of unrelated disturbances.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 68 Issue 2, April 1991,
p111-121, il
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16370
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The Fool Killer is probably one of North Carolina's most notable contributions to the gallery of American folk heroes. Jesse Holmes the Fool Killer was the fictional creation of Charles Napoleon Bonaparte Evans, editor from 1841 to 1883 of the weekly Milton Chronicle in Caswell County. There have been several letters discovered written by the Fool Killer in an attempt to bring justice upon the fools in mid-19th-century North Carolina society.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 3, Aug 1975,
p70-74, il
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5748
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Parramore discusses North Carolina inventors who were pursuing the goal of powered flight before and after the Wright Brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. These include Luther Paul of Beaufort, who between 1902 and 1907, built a helicopter that flew unmanned, the world's first machine to lift vertically off the ground.
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21289
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This article examines the history of the 'North Carolina Historical Review' from 1924 to 1974. Founded with state funds, the NCHR initially had little in the way of readers and contributors. Financially strained by the Great Depression and plagued by reduced contributions during World War II, the NCHR received a post-war boom.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 51 Issue 4, Oct 1974,
p361-378 , por, f
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16375
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North Carolina is well-known today for team sports, including basketball and football. The state was also known in the 1800s and 1900s for its role in horse racing. It is not well-remembered, however, that antebellum North Carolina sports entertainment included fistic gladiators, a form of boxing popular during this period.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 2, May 1974,
p55-62
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16707
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Dr. James Norcom, a prominent figure in eastern North Carolina during the 19th-century, was an active local politician and respected doctor who was accused by his slave, Harriet Jacobs, as being ruthless and lascivious in her autobiography. Parramore examines the disparate portrayals of Dr. Norcom in Jacob's account and in historical records, concluding while aspects of Jacob's description are accurate, the doctor's sexual relations with his slaves and her overall characterization is prone to emotional exaggeration.
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20929
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John Alexander was one of forty-plus Anglican missionaries from England that came to the state when it was just a colony. The article offers a short bibliographic sketch about Alexander's life in Scotland and Anglican activities in the state and along the southeastern Atlantic Coast. Alexander's life and career offers a look at the efforts and struggles of Anglican missionaries not only to represent and establish the Church of England in the colony, but to survive the hardships of colonial life.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 43 Issue 3, July 1966,
p305-315, f
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21630
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This article examines the fate of African-born Muslim slaves in North Carolina, with more scrutiny on the life of Umar ibn Said, an educated and upper class Muslim from Senegal. It delivers details from his life, especially after he became a slave in 1810 on a Cape Fear River plantation owned by James Owen. It also chronicles his conversion to Christianity, which was used by missionaries as an example on how to convert Muslims.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 77 Issue 2, Apr 2000,
p127-150 , il, por, f
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3309
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Frank Johnson's brass band was the best-known musical group in the state from 1830 to 1870. A former slave, he organized a band that traveled the state to play for plantation aristocracy and public events.
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7767
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Spain had a formal claim to what is now North Carolina up to 1670, but most history books fail to mention that Spaniards actually occupied portions of the land for extended periods of time. Several clues indicate that this is true. When Virginia explorers landed in the Albemarle region in 1653, they came across a Native American who insisted that the explorers meet a wealthy Spaniard who had been residing with the Tuscarora Indians for seven years. Three years prior to this encounter, Edward Bland was instructed to make inquiries about a white man living with the Tuscaroras. 17th-century maps of the region, such as W. J. Blaeu's and Mercator's maps, also indicated possible connections with Spain. Spaniards might have resided with the Tuscarora Indians to keep an eye on England's settlement in the region. It is possible that Spain might have even supplied trading and arms to the Tuscarora in the Tuscarora War of 1711-1713.
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21638
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This article describes some of the theories regarding the disappearance of Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists who had disappeared from Roanoke Island as posited by other historians, including the work of David Beers Quinn. Parramore debates Quinn on some issues, and also supplements Quinn's findings with his own research and thesis.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 78 Issue 1, Jan 2001,
p67-83, map, f
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21251
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Stephen Barton, Jr. moved to Hertford County, North Carolina in 1856 to establish a mill village based on the lumber trade with Norfolk and Northern ports. The brother of lauded humanitarian Clara Barton, Stephen's mill thrived until commercial insecurity in 1860 caused by looming conflict and Barton's neutrality during the American Civil War.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 51 Issue 1, Jan 1974,
p22-40 , il, por, f
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20464
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Although North Carolina cast her fortunes with those of the Confederacy in 1861, it was not until February 1862 that the Civil War was seriously felt in the eastern region of the state. During that time, Winton, a village on the Chowan River, was burned by Union troops. This event resulted in the disgrace of an entire regiment as an object in the futility of war.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 39 Issue 1, Jan 1962,
p18-31, f
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