Download or read book A Very Mutinous People written by Noeleen McIlvenna and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation societ

Download or read book Dictionary of North Carolina Biography written by William S. Powell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.

Download or read book North Carolina s Free People of Color 1715 1885 written by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes,” “mulattoes,” “mustees,” “Indians,” “mixed-bloods,” or simply “free people of color.” From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these non-enslaved residents, from prohibiting their testimony against whites to barring them from the ballot box. While such laws suggest that most white North Carolinians desired to limit the freedoms and civil liberties enjoyed by free people of color, Milteer reveals that the two groups often interacted—praying together, working the same land, and occasionally sharing households and starting families. Some free people of color also rose to prominence in their communities, becoming successful businesspeople and winning the respect of their white neighbors. Milteer’s innovative study moves beyond depictions of the American South as a region controlled by a strict racial hierarchy. He contends that although North Carolinians frequently sorted themselves into races imbued with legal and social entitlements—with whites placing themselves above persons of color—those efforts regularly clashed with their concurrent recognition of class, gender, kinship, and occupational distinctions. Whites often determined the position of free nonwhites by designating them as either valuable or expendable members of society. In early North Carolina, free people of color of certain statuses enjoyed access to institutions unavailable even to some whites. Prior to 1835, for instance, some free men of color possessed the right to vote while the law disenfranchised all women, white and nonwhite included. North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885 demonstrates that conceptions of race were complex and fluid, defying easy characterization. Despite the reductive labels often assigned to them by whites, free people of color in the state emerged from an array of backgrounds, lived widely varied lives, and created distinct cultures—all of which, Milteer suggests, allowed them to adjust to and counter ever-evolving forms of racial discrimination.

Download or read book Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present written by Samuel A'Court Ashe and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Governor s Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America 1607 1783 written by Hoke P. Kimball and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.

Download or read book Annual Report on Historical Collections written by University of Virginia. Library and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jane Pratt written by Marion Elliott Deerhake and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman. The press reported with great interest how "Miss Jane" won by a landslide with only a $100 campaign budget. She hit the ground running, voting to the pass the Atomic Energy Act, working tirelessly to mitigate a century of flood disasters in western North Carolina, and serving the constituents she knew so well. This first biography of Congresswoman Jane Pratt recounts her youth and fascinating career on Capitol Hill. It also provides a unique federal view of North Carolina's early 20th century history. After working as a rare female newspaper editor in the early 1920s, Pratt became secretary to five tarheel congressmen over some 30 years. Her career spanned the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Pratt's amazing network was a who's who of leaders in North Carolina and Washington, DC. Her decision not to run for re-election offers insight into why 46 years passed before the state elected another woman to Congress.

Download or read book Annual Report on Historical Collections written by University of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report on Historical Collections University of Virginia Library written by University of Virginia. Library and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography written by Philip Alexander Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Archivist written by University of Virginia. Library and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Underwood Family of Stanly County North Carolina A Biography and Genealogy written by Jonathan Underwood and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the descendants of Thomas Underwood (who landed in America in 1650) who migrated to North Carolina in 1762. The history primarily pertains to Alexander and Mary Underhill Underwood and their sons Samuel, Joseph, and Henry who made their home in Montgomery County (now Stanly County), North Carolina in 1794. Includes a narrative of each branch of the Underwood family, biographical sketches, proofs of relationship, photographs, maps, and a record of generations down to the present time. Includes an index.

Download or read book Dictionary of Pyrate Biography written by Baylus C. Brooks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Quest for Blackbeard," more than 720 entries have been researched historically and genealogically, where applicable, to describe the Golden Age of Piracy in the most detail now possible with the extraordinary availability of records from around the world! Included are the many pirates themselves, their families, facilitators of piracy, and some of their more influential victims. Many entries also include transcriptions of the primary sources which reveal their legends.

Download or read book Biographical written by Walter Barlow Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revolutionary Camden written by Derek Smith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Camden seems to have an evil genius about it. Whatever is attempted near that place is unfortunate." These words were spoken by American Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene just days after his defeat at the battle of Hobkirk Hill. With the war at a stalemate in the north, the British had turned their attention to the southern provinces with renewed vigor, and in 1780, the frontier village of Camden, South Carolina, found itself at the bloody epicenter of the American Revolution. This book is a history of Camden during the Revolutionary War, where it functioned as a keystone stronghold in the Crown's plan to quell the rebellion in the Carolinas and Georgia.The scene of two major battles and more than a dozen lesser clashes, Camden represents a brutal yet fascinating chapter in the history of the American Revolution.

Download or read book Biographical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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