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This article is the second and last in a series on the cotton textile industry in antebellum North Carolina. This installment focuses on the evolution of cotton textile production as an industrialized factory process, as well as on the contributions of particular innovators and companies to the industry such as Henry Humphreys, the Franklinville Manufacturing Company, and Hugh S. Parks among others. An appendix attached to the article lists all North Carolina cotton mills between 1830 and 1865.
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This article is a bibliography of, and short introduction to, the writings of African American advocate, author and educator Benjamin Griffith Brawley. The introduction essay offers biographical information and historical information on the period. The bibliography is organized by general works, biographical works, edited works, miscellaneous pamphlets, magazine edited, articles in newspapers, articles in periodicals, booklets of verse privately issued, book reviews in periodicals, editorials in periodicals, poems in periodicals, short stories in periodicals, and song collections and individual songs.
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This article details the results of a research project conducted by William S. Powell to uncover the biographies of the Roanoke colonists and explorers. Information on why, how, and where Powell's research was conducted is provided throughout the article, and a brief review of explorations and attempts at settlement on the NC coast between 1584 and 1590 is also provided. Powell found biographical information on 278 colonists in his research, and offers a few examples of his discoveries in the remaining pages.
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