Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Training in an 'art, trade, mystery, and employment': Opportunity or Exploitation of Free Black Apprentices in New Hanover County, North Carolina, 1820-1859?
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Rohrs provides an examination of free black apprentices in the antebellum south, using New Hanover County, North Carolina as a case study. He details the history and nature of free black apprenticeships before the Civil War, arguing that free black apprenticeships were not always exploitative.
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