Author: Mary Louise MedleyPublisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Scrapbook of North Carolina Society of County Historians
Author: Mary Louise MedleyPublisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Minutes and Miscellaneous Publications from the North Carolina Society of County and Local Historians
Author: North Carolina Society of County and Local HistoriansPublisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages :
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Constitution of the North Carolina Society of County and Local Historians
Author: North Carolina Society of County and Local HistoriansPublisher:
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Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Mastered by the Clock
Author: Mark M. SmithPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807864579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly masters and their slaves--came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time. Drawing on an extraordinary range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archival sources, Smith demonstrates that white southern slaveholders began to incorporate this new sense of time in the 1830s. Influenced by colonial merchants' fascination with time thrift, by a long-held familiarity with urban, public time, by the transport and market revolution in the South, and by their own qualified embrace of modernity, slaveowners began to purchase timepieces in growing numbers, adopting a clock-based conception of time and attempting in turn to instill a similar consciousness in their slaves. But, forbidden to own watches themselves, slaves did not internalize this idea to the same degree as their masters, and slaveholders found themselves dependent as much on the whip as on the clock when enforcing slaves' obedience to time. Ironically, Smith shows, freedom largely consolidated the dependence of masters as well as freedpeople on the clock.
State Society of County and Local Historians Tours in 1952
Author: Mary Louise MedleyPublisher:
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Category : Caldwell County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publications ...
Author: North Carolina. State Department of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Programs of the State Literary and Historical Association of North Carolina, the North Carolina Folklore Society, the North Carolina State Art Society, the Archaeological Society of North Carolina, the North Carolina Society for the Preservation of Antiquities and the North Carolina Society of County Historians
Author: North Carolina Literary and Historical AssociationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Department of Archives and History
Author: North Carolina. State Department of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Black Wilmington and the North Carolina Way
Author: John L. GodwinPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761816829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
In this gripping narrative of the development of the Civil Rights movement in North Carolina, Dr. John L. Godwin brings to life the infamous case of the Wilmington Ten and the subsequent allegations of conspiracy. Through extensive research and interviews, he seeks to uncover some of the truth behind the actual events of the 1972 trial, while at the same time drawing readers in with the compelling details of the movement's origins in North Carolina and its ultimate outcome in one community. Dr. Godwin underscores his effort with a comprehensive exploration of the Civil Rights movement through the eyes of the locality, comparing it incisively to the earlier protests of the 1960s. His portrait joins that of scholars who have sought to describe the transformation brought about by black leadership on the local and state level, recounting both its victories and the frustrated hopes of local activists, in addition to how the new conservatism ultimately succeeded in co-opting the movement. For Wilmington, this is set against the background of North Carolina politics and civic culture, highlighting the role of Benjamin Chavis and his rise to national prominence. Filled with pictures that personalize this troubled era of American history, Dr. Godwin's book is an essential resource, not only to historians but also to students of public policy.
Historical Society of North Carolina
Author: Historical Society of North CarolinaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27
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