Papers (1969-1984) including 4 research papers, 1 master's thesis, statistics on ratios of blacks and whites, etc.
A Greenville, N.C., native, Harold G. Sugg, is a member of a prominent local family. Sugg received an M.A. in history from Old Dominion University in 1971. He has been both an editor and publisher for several Virginia newspapers and is currently retired and living in Roanoke, Virginia.
The collection includes four term papers and one master's thesis, all from O.D.U. The papers deal with race relations, particularly emphasizing conditions in North Carolina. Topics covered include enslavement of humans, freed people (previously enslaved), the Fusion and Populist movements, sub-treasury plans, and both black and white farmers' alliances.
Three of the term papers, The Fusion Movement in North Carolina Seen Through the Focus of Critical Locality, Harry Skinner, The Sub-Treasury Plan and the New Deal, and Race and Populism in North Carolina: The Early Years [1886-1903], and the master's thesis, The Colored Farmers' Alliance, 1888-1892, With Special ReferencetoNorth Carolina, all deal with political and social aspects of race relations in the South during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. These works deal with attempts to form a cooperative relationship between blacks and whites around such issues as the Populist Party, the Farmers' Alliance, and the Sub-Treasury Plan. The papers also discuss the impact of these activities on the traditional Southern social system, resulting in the disfranchisement of blacks, Jim Crow legislation, destruction of the Populist Party, and the Wilmington, N.C., race riot (1898). Sugg explains in detail how those negative results led to the exodus of thousands of blacks from North Carolina to other Southern states and to the industrial North.
The fourth term paper, Race Relations in Pitt County, North Carolina: Slavery 1790-1860, covers such topics as the development of slavery in North Carolina and relationships between enslaved persons and their enslavers. Also of interest are statistics on ratios of Black people to white people, freed people to enslaved people, and property-holding individuals to tenants in North Carolina.
Gift of Harold G. Sugg
Processed by D. Beard, February 1985
Encoded by Apex Data Services
Descriptions updated by Ashlyn Racine, May 2023
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