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"Slaves and Free Persons of Color. An Act Concerning Slaves and Free Persons of Color," North Carolina Revised Code No. 105, 1855
Any inhabitant of this State desirous to emancipate any slave or slaves, shall file a petition, in writing in some one of the Superior Courts of this State, setting forth, as near as may be, the name, sex, and age of each slave intended to be…
"Speech of T. N. Crumpler, On Federal Relations," January 10, 1861
SPEECH
OF
T. N. CRUMPLER,
OF ASHE,
ON FEDERAL RELATIONS,
DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, JAN. 10, 1861.
RALEIGH:
PRINTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE RALEIGH REGISTER.
1861.
Page 1
SPEECH.
THE House being in Committee of the…
Tags: Secession, State Government
"Standing Interrogatories," 1876
STANDING INTERROGATORIES. The following questions will be put to every person who gives testimony: What is your name, your age, your residence and how long has it been such, and your occupation? If you are not the claimant, in what manner, if…
"Stealing Reduced to Science," Raleigh Daily Confederate, March 31, 1865
Stealing Reduced to Science It is said that Sherman’s thieving crowd surpass London pickpockets in their profession. They have thoroughly mastered their trade, that it is a thing next to impossible to conceal articles so that they cannot find…
"Stoneman’s Raid in Official Records," 1897
29th, marched thirty miles, and encamped near Wilkesboro, NC., at 7 p. 30th, moved at 5 a. m, and joined First Brigade, which had taken a different route across the mountains from Boone; the First Brigade forded the Yadkin River, which was rising too…
"Taken From the Record," October 5, 1880
GREENSBORO, Oct. 3.- If the terrible civil war, which cost this country so much of blood and of treasure, was not fought altogether in vain, if the Reconstruction acts and the amendments to the national Constitution are not entirely without force, it…
"The Apologists for North Carolina." Richmond Planet, November 26, 1898
THE APOLOGISTS FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
That any one, white or colored, Jew or Gentile, Christian or Infidel could be found to justify the murdering of the unarmed colored men at Wilmington, N. C., after the so-called election has taken place is one of…
"The Assembly of 1899-1900" Raleigh, 1899-1900
Tags: State Government, State Politics
"The Battle of Shiloh," April 30, 1862
"The Border States Must Unite and Act!," North Carolina Standard, April 20, 1861
The proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, which we publish to-day, has completed the sectionalization of the country. The two extremes are now arrayed against each other with warlike purposes, and the only hope for peace is in the border States. They may…
Tags: Border State, Confederacy, union
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David Blight, Race and Reunion (2001)
In his award-winning book, Race and Reunion, David Blight, a historian at Yale University, examines how Americans remembered the Civil War from the…