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Author
Publisher
Joseph W. Holden Convention printer
Pub. Date
1868.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (129, iv pages).
Language
English
Description
Constitution of the state of North Carolina, together with the Ordinance and Resolutions of the Constitutional Convention of 1868 and published in 1869 in Raleigh. This convention was required by the Reconstruction Act, and resulted in the enfranchisement of blacks and more power to the people and to the governor. It also provided for free public schools between the ages of six and twenty-one, as well as for state prisons and charitable institutions....
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
Series
Publisher
McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 15 cm (9 x 6 in).
Language
English
Description
"Few career opportunities were available to minority women in Appalachia in the first half of the 20th century. Nursing offered them a respected, relatively well paid profession and their work was important in challenging healthcare inequities in the region"-- Provided by publisher.
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