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34453
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Slaves and maroon communities were perceived as a threat to white property in Eastern North Carolina during the antebellum era. While slaves did have legal access to firearms during the colonial period, this access was revoked following the 1831 Nat Turner Rebellion in Virginia. This article discusses the use of black firearm laws as a means of protecting white property and mitigating the perceived black threat.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 93 Issue 4, October 2016,
p386-404, il, por, f
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24952
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Part four of a twelve part series describes the growth of Charlotte in the twenty years leading up to the Civil War. The building of a railroad connection to Charleston, South Carolina helped to stabilize the local economy after the gold rush ended in 1840. Fear of abolitionists and slaves escaping encouraged tensions before the war.
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4623
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In 1789, North Carolina gave its western lands, which eventually became the state of Tennessee, to the federal government to settle debts. Starting in April 1799, a survey party struggled through this wilderness area for five weeks to mark the boundary between the two states. The surveyors, John Strother and Robert Henry, left notebooks that give a picture of what this area was like two hundred years ago.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 64 Issue 5, May 2000,
p22-27, il
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3171
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Prior to 1830, the state was called the Rip van Winkle state for not keeping pace with dynamic changes happening elsewhere. However, between 1830 and 1861, the antebellum period, positive changes in transportation, education, and politics took place.
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1724
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Spanish captain Francisco de Miranda recorded in his diary his 47-day trip to North Carolina in 1783. His writings give insight into the infant North Carolina communities of the time.
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859
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Discusses the settling of Davidson County and the Cumberland Battalion, a state militia group, which was formed to protect the inhabitants from Indian rebellion.
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7836
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The majority of North Carolinian's delegates were Anti-Federalists who voted to reject the federal constitution in 1788. Out of 268 delegates in North Carolina William R. Davie, Alexander Martin, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson, and William Blount were elected by the General Assembly to serve as founding fathers. The following year opinion shifted and North Carolina became the twelfth state to ratify the constitution.
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21271
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This article examines the building process as it relates to architecture of the antebellum period with a focus on the manner in which buildings were designed, material manufactured, and labor organized to reveal something of the economic and social conditions of the period.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 60 Issue 4, Oct 1983,
p431-456, il, map, f
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16861
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Thomas Harriet and John White were the earliest individuals to document the state's plethora of native flora but a series of other botanist followed to create a record of all varieties of plants. John Lawson, Mark Catesby, Arthur Dobbs, and Andre Michaux were all European visitors to the state who recorded details about plant species and sent specimens back to their native countries.
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21044
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In 1781, North Carolina was a year into an extensive civil war, lacking resources and unified government. On June 25th Dr. Thomas Burke was elected as the state's third governor after having served for four years as one of North Carolina's delegates to the Continental Congress. Unable to contend with the problems of civil war within the state, he resigned after only 10 months of service.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 48 Issue 2, April 1971,
p95-117, il, por, map, f
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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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20381
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North Carolina militia men proved themselves to be tough soldiers during the War for American Independence, and success in the Carolinas rested on them under the command of General Nathanael Greene.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 37 Issue 3, Jul 1960,
p321-347
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24641
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The Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry was organized in 1793 and has been celebrated every year since. It is the oldest military infantry in the South and the second oldest to be organized in the country.
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20717
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This essay attempts to provide an overview of life in the 1850s. A significant amount of attention is given to national and international politics of the day and its effect on the country as a whole.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 34 Issue 3, July 1957,
p255-269, f
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13349
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Written in 1848 as a chapter of the book, Letters from the Alleghanies, Lanman offers a description of Hickory Nut Gorge. Part of a series published by The State, Lanman discusses the removal of the Cherokee Native Americans. A traveler's account of rural encounters, his descriptions offer a glimpse of what it was like in North Carolina during the middle of the 19th century.
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