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Primary Sources

Address of Thomas Ruffin delivered before the State Agricultural Society of North Carolina, Octover 18, 1855. Vol 4 of The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, edited by J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton, 251-54. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920. 323-337.

An Acct of the Purchase and Sale of Slaves made by Benjamin Chambers, 1823, Thomas Ruffin Papers, Collection 641, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Blake Cooper, Display at North Carolina Museum of History, personal photograph by author, Raleigh, NC, 2013.

Ruffin, Thomas, “First Draft of The State v. Mann.” Vol 4 of The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, edited by J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton, 251-54. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920. 249-251.

Ruffin, Thomas, “Second Draft of The State v. Mann.” Vol 4 of The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, edited by J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton, 251-54. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920. 251-254

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Ruffin, Sterling, Letter to Thomas Ruffin, June 1804. Vol 1 of The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, edited by J.G. de Roulhac Hamilton, 251-54. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920. 54-55.

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