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Primary Sources

 The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, vol. 1, edited by J. G. De Roulhac Hamilton, 54-55. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co, 1918.

The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, vol. 2, edited by J. G. De Roulhac Hamilton,. 306, 321. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co, 1918.

 The Papers of Thomas Ruffin, vol. 4, edited by J. G. De Roulhac Hamilton, 332-337. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co, 1920.

Heathercock v. Pennington, 11 Iredell 640 (1850)

State v. Mann, (13 N.C.) Iredell 263 (1829).                       

State v. Boyce, 10 Iredell (32 N.C.) 536, 541 (1849)

Address of Thomas Ruffin delivered before the State Agricultural Society of North Carolina, Octover 18, 1855. Taken from the Standard, October 24, 1855.

 

Secondary Sources

 

Huebner, Timothy J. The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctivness, 1790-1890. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1999.

Morris, Thomas D. Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Yanuck, Julius. “Thomas Ruffin and North Carolina Slave Law.” The Journal of Southern History 21, no. 24 (1955): 456-475

Genovese, Eugene, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (New York: Panteon, 1974), pgs. 539.

Kuklic, Bruce, “On Critical History,” taken from Religious Advocacy and American        

History, eds. Bruce Kuklick and D.G. Hart ( William B. Eerdmans Publishing  Company: Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cambridge, U.K.,1997), 57-58.

Wacker, Grant, “Understanding the Past, Using the Future,” taken from Religious

            Advocacy and American History, eds. Bruce Kuklick and D.G. Hart

            ( William B. Eerdmans Publishing  Company: Grand Rapids, Michigan and

            Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.,1997), 162-163

 

Graham, William A. Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians, ed. W.J. Peele.

            Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1898. 384