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21550
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During the early 20th century, cotton-seed crushing mill owners in eastern North Carolina depressed the price of seeds by adopting a variety of tactics. After antitrust suits destabilized the seed pools and direct price agreements, the mill owners exchanged price information through private means until that came under legal attack. To combat more litigation, they began full publication of price information, which was ruled to not be an unfair trade practice by the US Supreme Court.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 4, Oct 1990,
p411-437 , il, por, map, f
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21551
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This article examines a pamphlet circulated in the western highlands of Scotland that glowingly describes the opportunities in North Carolina during the 1770s. The pamphlet also describes the process by which a large number of Scots from Argyll, Skye, and Sutherland moved to North America during this time period.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 67 Issue 4, Oct 1990,
p438-449 , il, map, f
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21556
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During the colonial and antebellum periods of North Carolina's history, plantation owners developed fisheries to provide food for slave workforces. These fisheries were disrupted by Union troops and escaped slaves during the Civil War. After the cease of hostilities, the fishery industry grew quickly as the result of several factors including the expansion of steamboat and railroad lines, the completion of the deep-draft canal to Norfolk, Virginia, and market preferences towards fresh food and away from salted. North Carolina fisheries did not develop as extensively as New England fisheries because of the isolation of North Carolina fisheries, its warm climate, seasonal/migratory fish, and the lack of incentive to develop fisheries since productive farming land was available.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 1, Jan 1992,
p1-36 , il, f
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21557
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The western part of North Carolina did not suffer any major military campaigns during the Civil War, though women faced many other difficulties including physical threats, attacks, social, economic, and political splintering of their communities, and the presence of Confederate deserters and Union sympathizers. Communities in the region strained under the pressure of the Confederate war machine, but women in western North Carolina fought to maintain their traditional lifestyle, undermining the Confederate struggle in the process.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 1, Jan 1992,
p37-56 , il, map, f
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21558
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Following Reconstruction, North Carolina tried to solidify its position as part of the New South movement by holding an exposition in 1884. Held between 1 October and 1 November, the North Carolina exposition was mean to showcase the resources of North Carolina and recruit Northern capital. The exposition failed to fulfill its main goal in attracting Northern investors but it did succeed in educating and stimulating its own citizens.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 1, Jan 1992,
p57-81 , il, f
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21559
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This article examines the life of North Carolinian Kenneth Rayner as one of the founders of the American Party, or Know-Nothings. Members of the American Party believed they needed to more than both major political parties at the time in order to save the United States from their corruption. Their main goals were opposition to immigration and Catholics, whom they regarded as anti-republican and easily swayed by demagogic politicians. Rayner recognized the threat posed by sectionalism and predicted that if the party failed, war would ravage the country. Rayner and the party's beliefs lack support, especially in the South and the party did not thrive.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 2, Apr 1992,
p131-147 , il, por, f
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21560
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This article quantitatively analyses voter turnout and voting patterns in North Carolina from the 1850s to 1864. There was increased tension between the slaveholding elite and the smaller farmer class which was exacerbated by the wartime burdens the average North Carolinian suffered. Increased political competition also deepened the divide between the classes. This resulted in a transformation of the political landscape of North Carolina and the formation of a frustrated class of voters who had no ties to antebellum political machines and were determined to be heard.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 2, Apr 1992,
p148-178 , il, por, f
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21563
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This article examines the trial of the \"Charlotte Three,\" African-American civil rights activists convicted of burning a Charlotte horse stable in 1969. The trial typified trials of activists around the South in the 1960s-70s. The strict sentences given to the defendants on the basis of dubious testimony and on prosecutors seeking convictions at all costs, contributed to the demise of civil rights activism.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 1, Jan 1999,
p43-65, il, por, f
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21564
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The article examines the history of the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen (FSC), an interdenominational, reformist organization from its founded in 1934 to its transformation into the Committee of Southern Churchmen in 1963. During its short history, the FSC acted as an outlet for Christian people to work towards a better South where race was not an issue as it helped start an era of change in southern race relations.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 2, Apr 1992,
p179-199 , il, por, f
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21565
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A look at the political career of lawyer, writer, humorist, religious speaker, television commentator, and two-time candidate for Governor of North Carolina, Herbert Floyd \"Chub\" Seawell Jr.'s run in the 1952 gubernatorial election and its effect of the Republican party and beginning the move to a two-party system within the state. Although Seawell lost the election, he received more votes than any Republican candidate in the state's history at the time, and led the groundwork for a reinvigoration of the of the Republican party by differentiating their platform from that of the Democrats. Seawell advocated \"family values,\" lower taxes, economy in government and played a prominent role in the effort to rid North Carolina Republicanism of the stigma of Reconstruction and the \"evils\" of carpetbaggers.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 1, Jan 1999,
p66-101, il, por, f
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21566
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Between 1878 and 1890, the W. Duke, Sons and Company became the de facto controller of cigarette manufacturing in the United States. Through the leadership of James Buchanan Duke, the company aggressively utilized sales promotions and attractive advertising, while also controlling the cigarette rolling machines, first patented in the late 1870s and 1880s. In 1890, Duke also convinced his four major competitors to join him in forming the American Tobacco Company, which was subsequently labeled 'tobacco trust.'
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 3, July 1992,
p257-281 , il, por, f
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21567
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The Reverend Patrick W. Dowd was one of the leading figures amongst Baptists in North Carolina, but is practically ignored or presented in a negative light in Baptist histories. His treatment is blamed on his involvement in sexual misconduct and sermon plagiarism controversies in 1852. Upon closer examinations, those charges against Reverend Dowd, had less to do with ethics and more to do with theological differences and religious power struggles amongst North Carolina Baptists at the time.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 3, July 1992,
p282-300 , il, por, f
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21568
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This article re-examines and alters Henry T. Shanks's thesis in 'Disloyalty to the Confederacy in Southwestern Virginia, 1861-1865,' in the 1944 issue of the North Carolina Historical Review. In his article, Shanks relies exclusively on Confederate War Department findings regarding whether a majority of the region's residents openly opposed the Confederate States of America. Confederate agents used flawed investigative practices and overestimated the extent of disloyalty, especially membership in the Heroes of America. In post-war southwestern Virginia and in disagreement of Confederate reports and predictions, no Republican Party developed in the region and the Southern Claims Commission showed little evidence of rampant membership in the Heroes of America.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 3, July 1992,
p301-322 , il, por, map, f
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21569
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During the colonial and early state periods of North Carolina, the state use lotteries as a way to privately augment public projects. A wave of reform in the early 19th century, in coordination with stronger communities and governments, led to the gradual elimination of gambling and lotteries in North Carolina. State governments wanted to help shape the morality of their citizens and were willing to fund such public projects as education. By 1835, North Carolina had done away with lotteries for moral and practical reasons just as many northeastern states had in 1833. North Carolina led the first wave of the southern anti-gaming movement, following only Louisiana and Tennessee.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 4, Oct 1992,
p365-387 , il, f
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21570
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This article examines changes and imbalances in the Southern social structure as seen through the lens of the antebellum gold mining boom in North Carolina. The first efforts to mine gold in western North Carolina in 1803 utilized slaves to search for gold, and expansion of the gold mining industry in the late 1820s increased the demand for laborers sending thousands of slaves to the mines. Slaves were then working alongside whites, thus challenging the basic tenets of the Old South's stratified society. Additional stress was brought by the introduction of white, foreign mine workers into several operations, further complicating the Southern class and social systems, particularly in the influx of a white, working social class that had no interest in slavery or slaveholding.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 2, April 1999,
p135-162, il, map, f
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