Author: North Carolina
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1304

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Author: North Carolina
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1014

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Author: North Carolina
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Author: North Carolina
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1022

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Author: North Carolina
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Author: North Carolina
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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

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Author: Greg Mast
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ISBN: 9780865262645
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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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: William S. Powell
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807867136
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.