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Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 x 16 cm (10 x 7 in).
Language
English
Description
"In North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as 'negroes,' 'mulattoes,' 'mustees,' 'Indians,' 'mixed-bloods,' or simply 'free people of color.' From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these nonenslaved residents, from prohibiting their testimony against whites to barring...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
xviii, 266 p. : ill., geneal.tables, map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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A genealogy and a history of the ancestors of Dorothy Spruill Redford born Aug 1943 in Columbia, N.C. She is the daughter of Grady Spruill (b. 1907) and Louise Littlejohn (b. 1907). This is Dorothy's personal story of her search for her lost heritage by tracing her mother's lines back to the year 1790 to Somerset Place in Washington County, N.C. to her earliest known ancestor Fred Littlejohn. On the 30 Aug 1986 she brought together over two thousand...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
xiii, 451 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations,...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 269 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia, in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Owens family and their friends and...
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