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Caroline Lee Hentz lived in Chapel Hill from 1826 to 1831, while her husband Nicholas Hentz taught languages at the university, and befriended the enslaved poet George Moses Horton and helped edit his work. Her own later novels defended slavery, and Lovell's Folly (1833) drew characters from November and Venus Caldwell, enslaved by UNC president Joseph Caldwell.
Source: The Carolina Story: Caroline Lee Hentz (1800-1856)
1800–1856 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Papers of Joseph Gales Sr. (1761 to 1841), state printer, editor of the Raleigh Register from 1799 to 1833 and mayor of Raleigh, and of his wife Winifred, their sons and a grandson, 1794 to 1864. They include copied reminiscences in which Winifred Gales describes her family. Chapel Hill is one of the places touched. State Archives of North Carolina, PC.146.
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Portrait of the novelist Caroline Hentz, who lived in Chapel Hill in the late 1820s while her husband Nicholas Hentz taught at the university. Undated, from the Artists binder of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection.
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Picture: Caroline Lee Hentz, 1852. Public domain. Photograph by Published by E.H. Butler, Philadelphia, 1852; archive.org; via Wikimedia Commons
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