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- Collection: Scholarship
Mark Tushnet, Slave Law in the American South (2003)
Tags: Race relations, Slavery/Slaves
Louis Brown, The Salisbury Prison (1992)
Tags: Prisons
Layers of Loyalty: Confederate Nationalism and Amnesty Letters from Western North Carolina
Kent Redding, Making Race, Making Power (2003)
Democratic elites were able to make and regain power in the 1870s because they had established mechanisms for doing so, mechanisms that fit well with the vertical patterns of social relations of North Carolina’s society and tapped…
Tags: State Government, State Politics
Kent Blaser, "North Carolina and John Brown's Raid" (1978)
Tags: prewar
Katherine Giuffre, "First in Flight: Desertion as Politics in the North Carolina Confederate Army" (1997)
"In place of open mutiny, [powerless groups] prefer desertion...They make use of implicit understandings and informal networks...When such stratagems are abandoned in favor of more quixotic action, it is usually a sign of great desperation." Scott…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
Judkin Browning, Shifting Loyalties (2011)
Union forces marched into New Bern on March 14, 1862, and Beaufort on the twenty-fifth, marking the beginning of a military occupation that would last the rest of the war. With Union occupation came thousands of Federal soldiers, government…
Tags: patriotism
Jospeh C. Sitterson, The Secession Movement in N.C. (1939)
On May 1, the legislature met ins special secession. Governor Eillis, in his message, Reviewed the theory on which the government of the United States was founded and discussed fully the Constitutional aspects of coercion. Assuming that the state…
Joseph Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond (1985)
Ever since Sherman and his army embarked upon their march to the coast of Georgia and, later, through the Carolinas, the two campaigns earned the dubious distinction as the most controversial of the Civil War and possibly in American military…
John Spencer Bassett, Antislavery Leaders of North Carolina (1898)
All the conditions of small farms, simple habits and democratic ideals which have been ascribed to this general region were emphatically attributable to that part of it which lay in North Carolina. The western part of this State, until the…
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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, 1827-1886
Benjamin Hedrick (1827-1886), a chemistry professor at UNC, was dismissed from his job in 1856 after openly claiming that he supported the Republican…