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21094
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The Reed Gold Mine in Cabarrus County was, in 1799, the site of the first authenticated discovery of Gold in the United States. North Carolina produced more gold than any other state prior to 1849, and was the source for all native gold coined by the federal mint until 1828. Details on John Reed, the owner of the Reed Gold Mine, are included.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 1, Jan 1975,
p1-19, il, por
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21095
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The foreign attachment law was one of the major issues being disputed by Great Britain and North Carolina in the years before the Revolution, and the voiding of the North Carolina law by Great Britain, enacted after 1763, was the most important issue promoting the revolutionary sentiment in the colony.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 1, Jan 1975,
p20-36, f
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21096
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North Carolina Quakers, openly opposed to slavery, were put in the position of caring for many former slaves over whom they had assumed guardianship between 1775 and 1856. Because state law barred freeing slaves, Quakers attempted to remove African Americans from the state, sending them to northern states or to Haiti and Liberia. Despite slave resistance against resettlement, Northern and Haitian resentment to black immigration, and a shortage of resettlement funds, almost all former Quaker slaves had been resettled by 1856.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 1, Jan 1975,
p37-58, il, por, map, f
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21097
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Politics were involved in Harry Hopkins's selection of George W. Coan Jr. as a compromise candidate for North Carolina Works Progress Administration chief. The Roosevelt administration owed favors to North Carolina's senators, Robert L. Doughton and Josiah Bailey. Doughton and Bailey favored conservative candidates and opposed certain liberal political rivals, but Coan Jr. was eventually agreed upon by all parties.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 1, Jan 1975,
p59-76, por
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21098
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This article investigates the nature of orphanages in colonial North Carolina using Edgecombe County as a case study. A prominent issue was the lack of close supervision of guardians who often embezzled from orphans' estates or neglected orphans' educations. In other cases, orphans had no estates and were apprenticed to masters to learn a trade. While there were advantages to those orphans who had estates, treatment of the children varied with the guardian or master.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 2, April 1975,
p105-119, il
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21102
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In 1890, Washington Duke financed Trinity College's move from Randolph County to Durham. When the college fell into financial difficulty in 1892, Duke's son, Benjamin N. Duke, interceded with financial support. He and his brother, James B. Duke, invested their time and money into the university and established the Duke Endowment, used partly to build the new Duke University.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 2, April 1975,
p130-146, il, por
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21103
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A look at the contributions of North Carolina delegates William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and Richard Caswell to the Continental Congress. In 1775, John Penn replaced Caswell and eventually rose to political fame in North Carolina. The delegation made no lasting contributions to the Congress but did vote for independence despite an earlier reluctance.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 3, July 1975,
p215-234, il, por, map
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21104
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Changes in the nature of the Salem Moravian ruling theology, from 'gemeinschaft' to 'gesellschaft', can be viewed in the context of rising dissent on military involvement, relationships between the sexes, and the rise of economic individualism. Between 1820 and 1850, Moravians in Salem were forced to permit residents to join the militia, ease the strict rules regarding courting and marriage, abandon the community landholding system, and allow residents to engage in the slave trade.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 3, July 1975,
p235-255, il, por, map
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21105
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A look at the development of a trunk railroad line across North Carolina, from Beaufort to the Tennessee border, encouraged by Governor Zebulon B. Vance and his successor, Thomas J. Jarvis between 1879 and 1885. Ultimately, the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company won control of and completed the railroad line, overcoming competition from New York- and Boston-based businessmen.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 3, July 1975,
p256-282, il, por, map
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21106
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As part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program, the Social Security Act (1935) included provisions for unemployment insurance compensation to workers based on state compliance by January 1, 1936. Because of the law's timing, Governor J.C.B. Ehringhaus was forced to call a special session in December 1937, despite his political and financial opposition to doing so.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 3, July 1975,
p283-302, il, por
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21107
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A look at the life and career of arts patron Robert Donaldson Jr., a Fayetteville native, longtime resident of New York, and proponent of architecture and landscaping. Donaldson's home, Blithewood-on-the-Hudson, was designed by his friend Alexander Jackson Davis, who he also recommended to design and landscape several buildings at the University of North Carolina.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 4, Oct 1975,
p333-366, il, por, map
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21108
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A look at the life of Lucy Martin Battle who lived mostly in support of her husband, William Horn Battle, a lawyer and North Carolina Supreme Court Justice. Mrs. Battle assumed much of the responsibility for managing her husband's private affairs, including serving briefly as his secretary. She managed their large household of children and slaves in Raleigh and then in Chapel Hill during her husband's frequent absences due to his engagement in public life.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 52 Issue 4, Oct 1975,
p367-393, il, por
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21109
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While it is well known that much of Dr. John Brickell's text from his \"Natural History of North Carolina\" was plagiarized from John Lawson's \"A New Voyage to Carolina,\" it should be noted that writings of the botanist Reverend John Clayton of Tidewater, Virginia were also a source for Brickell's work. Passages from Brickell's text and Clayton's source material are transcribed side-by-side to demonstrate Brickell's plagiarism.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Jan 1977,
p1-16, il
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21110
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This article is a systematic study of the development of vernacular domestic architecture in Gates, Perquimans, and Pasquotank counties in northeastern North Carolina, with a particular focus on the planning and structural character of farmhouses in the period between settlement and the American Civil War.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Jan 1977,
p17-48, il, map
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21111
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This article examines the manifestation of the late 19th and early 20th century resurgence of racism and polarization of society as seen within the Protestant Episcopal Church via Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr.'s active participation in the debate on the role of African Americans within Episcopal hierarchy.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 54 Issue 1, Jan 1977,
p49-65, il, por
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