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1.From Memoir To Movie by Bloom, Sally Causey Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 63 Issue 2, Spring 2024
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A film, "Friends in Liberty" produced in 2009 by the North Carolina Museum of History is based on Hugh McDonald's 18 century memoir recording early events of the American Revolution in North Carolina. McDonald was a teenager when he joined the conflict. McDonald's memoir describes the Battle of Moores Creek, notes a parade on July 4, 1777 in Philadelphia and a memorable experience where McDonald and his platoon of 16 teenagers were brought before George Washington and honored after have broken through lines four times during the Battle of Germantown.
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In 1775, Governor Dunmore of Virginia offered freedom to African Americans enslaved by Patriots if they would serve the British Army. An estimated 3,000 Black men, women and children fled North Carolina with the British to Canad during the conflict. Another 5,000 Black men chose to fight with the American army. Some like Ned Griffen were compensated but others struggled to gain the respect they deserved, particularly in later years as southern states tightened restrictions on free and enslaved persons.
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Federalists believed the United States would fail without a stronger central government and supported ratification and adoption of the Constitution. Perhaps nowhere in the new nation was the battle between Federalists and Anti-Federalists more contested than in North Carolina. Initially the state voted in Hillsborough in 1788 not to ratify the document but at the same time did not reject it. Another convention in Fayetteville in 1789 eventually succeeded when protections argued by the Anti-Federalists were met with amendments to the Constitution.
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the author makes the case that as the reality of an American Revolution became clear, North Carolinians of all persuasions reckoned and decided as to how they would move forward based on their own situations. for example, the Cherokee were irritated with colonists encroachment on their lands, or they sided with Great Britain as well as western North Carolinian who believed those in the eastern part of the colony that controlled the local government were far worse than Parliament or the king.
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Some of the greatest concentrations of Loyalists in North Carolina were centered around Wilmington and the coastal regions. Another contingent was located in the back-country, including a band headed by the feared commander David Fanning.
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Flora McDonald had celebrity status with Highland Scots in North Carolina when she moved to the colony in the early 1770s. Her stay, however, was brief, when her family chose to support England over the patriot cause. She left North Carolina for good in 1779.
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44033
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Several themes will be emphasized in the celebration, including "Visions of Freedom", "Gathering of Voices" and "Common Ground".
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Though a number of theories exist, no one knows how these horses ended up living on the Outer Banks. It isknown they have been in the are since the 1600s. This breed is noted as different from other horse breeds and is renowned for its "even temperament and gentle dispositions". The author of this article was a winner of the 2023 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine Article Contest, Elementary Division.
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Hemlock woolly adelgids (HWAs) are an invasive species first found in the eastern United States near Richmond, Virginia. They first arrived in North Carolina in 1995. They target some of the most important trees in the Great Smoky Mountains. A current line of defense has been the use of predator beetles from Japan , which only eat HWAs.
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The species was declared extinct in the wild in 1980. In September of 1987, the U.S. Wildlife Service release four airs of red wolves into the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge.
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The British invaded North Carolina in 1781, the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, occurring on March 15. What appeared initially as a pathway for British conquest went drastically downhill when heavy casualties and dwindling supplies forced a harsh march back to Wilmington despite their winning the battlefield at Guilford. Primary commanders in the conflict were General Nathanael Greene, representing the American forces and General Charles Cornwallis, representing the British.
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During the colonial period and into the Revolution, British agents were deployed among the native people to build trust and influence. Devastation after the Cherokee War of 1776, however, prompted many to stay out of the Revolutionary War conflict.
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After fighting to win independence from Great Britain with its centralized government and unpopular taxation, North Carolina was in fact very reluctant to participate in the Constitutional Convention but eventually did so, initially electing Richard Caswell, William R. Davie, Willie Jones, Alexander Martin and Richard Dobbs Speight as representatives.
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Harvesting of whales off North Carolina's coast was at its maximum in the mid-19th century and then declined. Protection from over-harvesting of whale populations was established in 1972 with the Marine Mammal Protection Act. In 2004, the death of a monitored whale known as 'Stumpy" by scientists enabled research leading to changes in speed limits for preventing whales from being killed by boats. the skeleton for the whale is now in the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
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In the 1850s, the Egypt Coal Mine in Lee County was the main source for coal in North Carolina. North Carolina's first state geologist, Ebenezer Emmons examined the first fossils from Egypt Mine. Most exciting of the discoveries that followed was a tine jawbone named Dromatherium. Emmons believed it to be the oldest mammal.
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