Record #:

22713

Author(s):

Sherman, Kimberly B.

Abstract:

As early as the 1730s, it was discovered that the environment of the Lower Cape Fear was suited for growing rice, and small-scale rice cultivation flourished. Although the rice industry was often overshadowed by naval stores, it had a long-lasting effect on the colonial economy and laid a foundation for agricultural growth and broader Atlantic trade into the nineteenth century.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 91 Issue 3, July 2014, p255-287, il, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Rice farmers--Lower Cape Fear; Rice production--North Carolina; North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Cape Fear Region

Record #:

22714

Author(s):

McGuire, Samuel B.

Abstract:

In July, 1870, African American state militia were mobilized in New Bern to face the Klu Klux Klan in North Carolina's state capitol, Raleigh. Under the command of George B. Willis, the militia attempted to stem violence from the Klan since the election of Republican William W. Holden in 1868. After two severe crimes, Holden mobilized two militia regiments under William J. Clarke (including Willis' troops) and George W. Kirk. The conflict became known as the Kirk-Holden War. This event, and the work of black North Carolinians in the militia, had a significant impact on state Reconstruction policies.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 91 Issue 3, July 2014, p288-322, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Holden, William Woods, 1818-1892; Kirk-Holden War; Ku Klux Klan; Reconstruction (1865-1877)--North Carolina

Record #:

22715

Author(s):

Judson, Sarah

Abstract:

The East End/Valley Street neighborhood and the Nasty Branch Creek fostered a collective identity for the black public in Asheville, North Carolina in the 1950s-1970s. In the face of urban renewal, this neighborhood and surrounding environment provided economic opportunities and social networks.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 91 Issue 3, July 2014, p323-350, il, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Asheville--History; African American communities; Urban renewal

Record #:

22717

Author(s):

Watson, Alan D.

Abstract:

In desperate need of people, English North American colonies transported men and women to help settle the continent through bound labor, or indentured servitude. Far more numerous than slaves before 1700, nearly half of the immigrants to America until the American Revolution were indentured servants. Indentured servitude did not occupy the same position in the Albemarle Region of North Carolina as it did in Virginia given the geographic isolation and the enslavement of Native American populations.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 91 Issue 4, October 2014, p381-406, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Albemarle Region--History; North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Slavery

Record #:

22718

Author(s):

Fountain, Daniel L.

Abstract:

Fountain evaluates the footprint and impact of slavery within communities by focusing on slaveholding families. The author analyses demographic and economic components of slave-owning households, rather than individual slaveholders, in Alamance, Orange, and Wake.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 91 Issue 4, October 2014, p407-444, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Slavery--North Carolina, Piedmont; North Carolina--Antebellum period, 1820-1861; North Carolina, Piedmont--History

Record #:

19523

Author(s):

Smith, John David

Abstract:

Although under-realized from a historic standpoint, Smith calls attention to slavery in North Carolina's Piedmont, and suggests new areas of research and analysis.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 1, Jan 2013, p1-25, il, por, map, bibl, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Slavery--North Carolina, Piedmont

Record #:

19524

Author(s):

Watson, Alan D.

Abstract:

In response to the smallpox epidemic in other parts of the United States, North Carolina took action to safeguard its inhabitants by instituting an approach to public health similar to towns like Boston. Watson discusses the development of public health in the state in response to smallpox and the evolution of preventative measures.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 1, Jan 2013, p26-48, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Public health--History; Smallpox--North Carolina

Record #:

19525

Author(s):

Elliott, Walker

Abstract:

In the early 20th-century, Native Americans still located in the southeast were embedded in the racial tensions of the regions. However, groups such as the Lumbee of North Carolina were able to manipulate, subvert, and adapt to the shifting tides of racial supremacy and provide for themselves access to education.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 1, Jan 2013, p49-87, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Lumbee Indians--North Carolina--Education

Record #:

20890

Author(s):

Still, William N., Jr.

Abstract:

The C.S.S. Neuse was one of two ironclads constructed in eastern North Carolina sounds. Ironclads were an important component of the Confederate Navy's strategy to defeat the Union during the Civil War. The author describes the history of the vessel from commission in 1862 to its excavation in 1961.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 1, Jan 2013, p1-13, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations--Confederate

Record #:

22698

Author(s):

Rohrs, Richard C.

Abstract:

Rohrs provides an examination of free black apprentices in the antebellum south, using New Hanover County, North Carolina as a case study. He details the history and nature of free black apprenticeships before the Civil War, arguing that free black apprenticeships were not always exploitative.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 2, April 2013, p127-148, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Free Blacks; North Carolina--History, African Americans; Apprentices

Record #:

22699

Author(s):

Adams, Lars C.

Abstract:

The brief Chowan River War which raged on the Virginia-North Carolina border from 1676-1677 had direct connections to both Bacon's Rebellion and Culpepper's rebellion. Despite the factionalism rampant among the English settlers, the power of the Chowanoke Indians in the area was broken.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 2, April 2013, p149-172, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Native Americans--North Carolina

Record #:

22700

Author(s):

Compton, Stephen C.

Abstract:

In the context of the Regulator Uprising, no other person is more lionized that James Pugh. Pugh gained legendary status for his role as sharpshooter during the 1771 skirmish with Gov. William Tryon's militia forces at the Battle of Alamance. The rest of the Pugh family is also known to have been part of the legendary Regulators.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 2, April 2013, p173-196, il, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Pugh, James, c.1730-1771; North Carolina--History--Regulator Insurrection, 1766-1771

Record #:

22701

Author(s):

Summey, Virginia

Abstract:

Greensboro, North Carolina became a central location for the civil rights movement in the 1960s starting with the North Carolina A&T sit-in. Within the Greensboro location, Elreta Alexander was a prominent African American attorney who advocated for civil rights through the judicial system.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 3, July 2013, p237-258, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Civil rights--North Carolina; Civil rights movement--Activists; African American lawyers; Greensboro

Record #:

22702

Author(s):

Hall, Matthew R.

Abstract:

Although typically described as remote and isolated from national trends in developments in politics, economics, and social trends, there were places within the post-bellum South that were connected and influenced by larger centers of news and power. For example, Weldon, North Carolina became not only an important regional center for industry and commerce, but also a place to taken in broader cultural and economic trends of the late-nineteenth century, often spurred by the success of railroads.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 3, July 2013, p259-287, il, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Wilmington and Weldon Railroad

Record #:

22703

Author(s):

Lowery, J. Vincent

Abstract:

Although largely forgotten in North Carolina history apart from a public park in his honor, Hugh MacRae (1865-1951) was an urban businessman who fostered economic opportunity and development, especially as related to southern farmers. After graduating from MIT, McRae returned to Wilmington in 1892 where he later consolidated gas, railway, light and power interests and promoted the development of several suburban communities. He later shifted his attention to the development of truck farms and model communities in southeastern North Carolina and the transformation of rural life through small-scale, intensive farming practices.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 3, July 2013, p287-324, il, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

MacRae, Hugh, 1865-1951; Farming--North Carolina, Eastern; Rural development