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Built on land seized by the Union army during the Civil War, James City, named for Horace James, developed as a significant community inhabited by former enslaved persons after the war. Despite building business, homes and paying taxes, the original owner, James A. Bryan of New Bern, sued and won to retrieve the property. In April 1893, Gov. Carr traveled from Raleigh with the state militia to enforce the eviction of residents. In the end a compromise was reached, whereby residents would pay rents to Bryan.
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A political showdown between North Carolina Republican Governor William Woods Holden and the KKK, the Kirk-Holden War developed after the assassinations of an African American town council member in Alamance County and Republican state senator John W. Stephens in the Caswell County Courthouse. Holden's decision to send out the militia ultimately framed his impeachment in 1871.
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After the close of the Civil War, Congress passed several reconstruction acts that specified those things southern states must do before being readmitted to the Union. One of the requirements was adoption of a new state constitution. A convention to to accomplish this goal opened on January 14, 1868. One of the provisions made in the new constitution was universal male suffrage. Considered very progressive for its time, the new constitution was challenged by conservatives, who termed it the "radical Reconstruction constitution".
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