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19845
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This article traces the development of English language skills among the Pennsylvania-German in North Carolina. It is divided into sections that look at the German Period, 1747-1790, the original dialect, the mixed dialect, the bi-lingual period 1790-1825, the efforts to preserve the German language, the arguments for German, English marching on, and the English period, 1825--.
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19936
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This article looks at slavery in German settlements of the North Carolina Piedmont dating from 1747 and lasting until abolitionist sentiments became popular in the early 1800's.
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