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- Tags: prewar
William Woods Holden, 1818 -1892
Tags: North Carolina, prewar, Secession, W.W. Holden
The Census of 1860.
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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…
Letter from Daniel Wilson to S S Jocelyn, November 26, 1858
Sawyersville Nov the 26th 1858
To Revrnd. S S Jocelyn Sec of the AMA
Dear Brother
After a long delay I again address you to Inform you that whatever may have been the Impressions made on your mind by others; as to the Writer that I still feel…
Kent Blaser, "North Carolina and John Brown's Raid" (1978)
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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…
Image of John Brown
Enclosed is a portrait of John Brown, leader of the Harpers Ferry raid.
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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
George C. Rable, Confederate Republic (1994)
Tags: North Carolina, prewar, Secession
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Voter Registration Card from Alamance County, 1902
This voter registration card was created after the Democrat-controlled North Carolina General Assembly passed a Suffrage Amendment in 1900. The…