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21368
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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.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 57 Issue 1, Jan 1980,
p17-42 , il, por, f
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21375
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Eastern North Carolina planter Elias Carr entered state agricultural politics in the 1880s after over 20 years as master of Bracebridge Plantation in Edgecombe County. He was elected president of the North Carolina Farmer's Association in 1887 and the organization was absorbed into the North Carolina Farmers' Alliance the same year. Carr served as executive committee chairman (1887-1889) and later president (1889-1891) of the Alliance. Through his time as a leader of the Alliance, Carr worked with others to improve the stability and strength of the organization.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 57 Issue 2, Apr 1980,
p133-158 , il, por, f
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