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This article examines the multi-faceted career of Adam Boyd. During his life, Boyd was a minister, official of the court, member of the Committee of Safety, chaplain in the Continental Army, member of the North Carolina Society for the Cincinnati, and founder of the 'Cape Fear Mercury' one of North Carolina's earliest newspaper.
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21231
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Between 1868 and 1872, 34 African-Americans served In the North Carolina General Assembly. During this time period, the legislators wielded influence in the areas of education, land ownership, consolidating the gains of former slaves and proposing legislation on social reform.
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21232
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This article examines the career of physician and surgeon Calvin Jones of North Carolina. During his career, Jones bridged the gap between a method of medicine characterized by speculative systems of pathology and heroic practice (1729-1820) and a period (1820-1870) that saw to the implementation of a method of modern pathology and clinical studies.
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21233
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During North Carolina's colonial period members of the Royal Council were deemed 'men of good estates' and therefore the elite of North Carolina politics and society. The Royal Council served as the upper house of the Colonial Assembly as well as a higher court and board of advice and consent to the chief executive.
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