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- Tags: prewar
George C. Rable, Confederate Republic (1994)
Tags: North Carolina, prewar, Secession
“North Carolina and Secession,†April 4, 1861
North Carolina and Secession—North Carolina will not secede from the Union for existing causes. Nearly all the Union candidates in this State advocated a Convention; if they had opposed it, it would have been voted down by 30,000 majority. We…
Kent Blaser, "North Carolina and John Brown's Raid" (1978)
Tags: prewar
William Woods Holden, 1818 -1892
Tags: North Carolina, prewar, Secession, W.W. Holden
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…
The Census of 1860.
Tags: prewar
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
        I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be…
Tags: prewar, Slave Resistance, Slavery/Slaves, Women
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…
Image of John Brown
Enclosed is a portrait of John Brown, leader of the Harpers Ferry raid.
Tags: prewar
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North Carolinian voters chose John C. Breckinridge in presidential election, November 6, 1860

On November 6, 1860, in the presidential election, North Carolinian voters chose John C. Breckinridge (pictured), the southern Democratic nominee,…