Portraits Of The African-American Experience In Concord-Cabarrus, North Carolina 1860-2008
This collection of nineteen original essays on selected topics and epochs in North Carolina history offers a broad survey of the state from its discovery and colonization to the present.
Winner, 2011 George W. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award, Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Inc.2010 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineHonorable mention, Large Nonproft Publishers Illustrated Text, 2010 Washington Book...
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson, first published in 1862, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of...
Louis A. Pérez Jr., To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society (2005). Peter Filene, The Joy of Teaching: ... Michael H. Hunt, The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance (2007). Michael Lienesch, In the ...
Here, Hannah Gill offers North Carolinians from all walks of life a better understanding of their Latino neighbors, bringing light instead of heat to local and national debates on immigration.
Discussion of slave rebelliousness, African American religion, toryism among blacks, and blacks who fought for the patriots. Includes an appendix of North Carolina blacks who served in the Continental Line...
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The group's leader, Kenneth Whitsett, boasted of support from prominent citizens in Greensboro, while grumbling about the chilly reception he received from Charlotte's city leaders. “They were so busy making money,” Whitsett lamented.
and the African American Experience 1800s 1800 Ratified by South Carolina legislators is a statute which prohibits teaching both enslaved and free Africans Americans to read. Other states that prohibit (or continue to prohibit) teaching ...