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- Tags: Secession
The Confederate Republic, George C. Rable
Tags: North Carolina, pre-war, Secession
Letter from John W. Halliburton to Juliet Halliburton, March 6, [1861]
Chapel Hill
March the 6th
My Darling.
You have consented to let one sunday pass without giving to me the accustomed salute. I have not been well at ease since Ed's letter was recieved. He said that you were very sorry. My Darling is it always…
North Carolina and the Coming of the Civil War, William C. Harris
Tags: North Carolina, pre-war, Secession
An Ordinance to dissolve the Union Between The State of North Carolina and The United States, May 20, 1861.
ODRINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE
STATE CONVENTION.
[No. 1.]
AN ORDINANCE TO DISSOLVE THE UNION BETWEEN
THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND
THE OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER
THE COMPACT OF GOVERNMENT ENTITLED THE
CONSTITUTION…
"Disunion for Existing Causes," North Carolina Standard, December 1, 1860
A Confederacy or Union composed of the fifteen slaveholding States would, after a while, encounter some of the same difficulties which now beset the existing Union. The States south of us would produce and export cotton, while the middle or…
Tags: Confederacy, Constitution, Secession, union
"A Few Reflections on Secession," The Daily Herald, November 9, 1860
It is thought by some persons that a dismemberment of our government is imminent, and almost inevitable; others are more sanguine as to the result of our present difficulties, but all agree that there is some cause for apprehension. The prevailing…
Tags: Confederacy, Government, Secession, union
Bartholomew F. Moore, 1801-1878
John W. Ellis, 1820-1862
John Willis Ellis was a North Carolina lawyer, legislator, judge, and Democratic governor. Born in Rowan County in 1820, he was a son of a Planter. Ellis graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1841, and served as a lawyer, until he was…
Tags: Secession, Slavery/Slaves
William Woods Holden, 1818 -1892
Tags: North Carolina, prewar, Secession, W.W. Holden
Shearer Davis Bowman, At The Precipice (2010)
Tags: Secession
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Hinton Rowan Helper, 1829-1909

Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909), a bitter and staunch racist, was the author of one of the greatest and most influential books on antislavery of his…