Author: North Carolina
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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Author: North Carolina Genealogical Society
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780936370248
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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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 non-enslaved residents, from prohibiting their testimony against whites to barring them from the ballot box. While such laws suggest that most white North Carolinians desired to limit the freedoms and civil liberties enjoyed by free people of color, Milteer reveals that the two groups often interacted—praying together, working the same land, and occasionally sharing households and starting families. Some free people of color also rose to prominence in their communities, becoming successful businesspeople and winning the respect of their white neighbors. Milteer’s innovative study moves beyond depictions of the American South as a region controlled by a strict racial hierarchy. He contends that although North Carolinians frequently sorted themselves into races imbued with legal and social entitlements—with whites placing themselves above persons of color—those efforts regularly clashed with their concurrent recognition of class, gender, kinship, and occupational distinctions. Whites often determined the position of free nonwhites by designating them as either valuable or expendable members of society. In early North Carolina, free people of color of certain statuses enjoyed access to institutions unavailable even to some whites. Prior to 1835, for instance, some free men of color possessed the right to vote while the law disenfranchised all women, white and nonwhite included. North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885 demonstrates that conceptions of race were complex and fluid, defying easy characterization. Despite the reductive labels often assigned to them by whites, free people of color in the state emerged from an array of backgrounds, lived widely varied lives, and created distinct cultures—all of which, Milteer suggests, allowed them to adjust to and counter ever-evolving forms of racial discrimination.

Author: North Carolina. Division of Archives and History. Archives and Records Section
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: North Carolina
Publisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Author: North Carolina. Council
Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Each volume of this landmark series begins with a thorough introduction setting the historical context for the group of documents contained therein. An expansive index completed each volume. Includes much material not printed in the first Colonial Records series.

Author: Ansley Herring Wegner
Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
ISBN: 9780865264724
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An illustrative day-by-day chronicle of North Carolina history highlights such topics of importance as sensational crimes to top selling records to homegrown businesses.

Author: Historical Records Survey of North Carolina
Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: Caroline B. Whitley
Publisher: Colonial Records of North Caro
ISBN: 9780865262966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In North Carolina's proprietary period (1663-1729), the primary means of acquiring land was by headright. A free person was allowed to claim a specified amount of land for each person, including himself/herself, that he/she transported into the colony for the purpose of settlement. While the amount of land attached to a headright varied throughout the era, the most common amount was fifty acres.

Author: Robert J. Cain
Publisher: Colonial Records of North Caro
ISBN: 9780865262102
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Each volume of this landmark series begins with a thorough introduction setting the historical context for the group of documents contained therein. An expansive index completed each volume. Includes much material not printed in the first Colonial Records series.