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Elizabeth Keckly in Hillsborough
Keckly’s enslaved years in the Burwell household and her memoir’s testimony about them, including the abuse by schoolmaster William Bingham, documented across the collections of twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina.
8 works · grouped from 12 catalog subject headings
Places represented Hillsborough · North Carolina · Chapel Hill · City of Durham
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Organizations
Saint Augustine's College (Raleigh, N.C.) (1)
Saint Augustine's College (Raleigh, N.C.) (1)
Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church (Durham, N.C.) -- History (1)
Saint John's Church (Williamsboro, N.C.) -- History (1)
Saint Mary's School and Junior College (Raleigh, N.C.) (2)
Saint Matthew's Church (Hillsborough, N.C.) (1)
Saint Matthew's Parish (Orange County, N.C.) (1)
Saint Thomas More Catholic Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (5 works · 5 headings)
All 5 works under “Saint Thomas More Catholic Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.)” →
Saint Thomas More Catholic Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (5)
Saint Thomas More Catholic Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- Anniversaries, etc (1)
Saint Thomas More Catholic Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- History (1)
Saint Thomas More Catholic Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- Pictorial works (1)
Saint Thomas More Catholic Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- Registers (1)
Salem Academy (Winston-Salem, N.C.) (2 works · 3 headings)
Salem Female Academy (Salem, Winston-Salem, N.C.) (1)
Sanborn Map Company (1 works · 2 headings)
School Integration -- North Carolina -- Raleigh -- History (1)
School Poetry -- North Carolina -- Carrboro (1)
School prose, American (8 works · 5 headings)
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School prose, American -- North Carolina (1)
School prose, American -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Periodicals (5)
School prose, American -- North Carolina -- Hillsborough -- Periodicals (1)
School prose, American -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century (1)
School verse, American (3 works · 2 headings)
School Yearbooks -- North Carolina -- Durham (1)
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company (1)
Seaman's Friend Society (Norfolk, Va.) (1)
Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.) (2)
Select Boarding and Day School (Hillsborough, N.C.) (1)
Semora Methodist Church (Milton, N.C.) -- History (1)
Seymour and Blair Club (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (1)
Shady Grove United Methodist Women (1)
Shared Learning Association of Chapel Hill (N.C.) (4 works · 3 headings)
Shatzman Collection -- Exhibitions (1)
Shaw University (1)
Shiloh Baptist Church (Milton, N.C.) -- History (1)
Sigma Alpha Iota. Iota Tau Chapter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (1)
Sigma Chi (Florida State University) (1)
Sigma Chi Fraternity. Alpha Tau Chapter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) -- Periodicals (1)
Sigma Theta Tau. Alpha Alpha Chapter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) -- Periodicals (1)
Sigma Upsilon (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Odd Number Club (1)
Simmons Company (1)
Siouan Project (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research Laboratories of Anthropology) (3)
Smart Start Program (N.C.) (1)
Smith Richardson Foundation (1)
Society for International Development (1)
Society for the Study of Southern Literature (1)
Society of Friends (10 works · 8 headings)
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Society of Friends -- Discipline (1)
Society of Friends -- Education -- Essays (1)
Society of Friends -- North Carolina -- Alamance County (1)
Society of Friends -- North Carolina -- Alamance County -- History (1)
Society of Friends -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- History (1)
Society of Medical Administrators (U.S.) (1 works · 2 headings)
Society of the Sigma Xi. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapter (4)
Soldiers Aid Association (Orange County, N.C.) (1)
Soldiers' Home Association (1)
Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center (7 works · 2 headings)
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History -- Description and travel (1)
South Carolina College (1 works · 2 headings)
South Lowell Academy (Durham, N.C.) -- History (1)
Southeast Public Health Foundation (1)
Southeastern Black Press Institute (1)
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (1)
Southeastern College Art Conference (1)
Southeastern Conference on International Higher Education (1)
Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (4)
Southeastern Renaissance Conference (1)
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1)
Southern Committee for People's Rights (1)
Southern Economic Association (2)
Southern Historical Association (2)
Southern Observatory for Astrophysical Research (2)
Southern Regional Education Board (1)
Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.) (4)
St. John's Metropolitan Community Church (Raleigh, N.C.) (1)
St. Joseph AME Church (Durham, N.C.) (1)
St. Joseph's Historic Foundation (Durham, N.C.) (1)
St. Mary's College (Raleigh, N.C.) (3 works · 2 headings)
St. Mary's School (Raleigh, N.C.) (1)
St. Matthew's Church (Hillsborough, N.C.) (4 works · 2 headings)
St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (2 works · 2 headings)
St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Chicago, Il.) (1)
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Durham, N.C.) (1)
St. Thomas More Catholic School (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- History (1)
State Bank of North Carolina (1)
State Employees Association of North Carolina. District 35 (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- Periodicals (1)
State Hospital (Goldsboro, N.C.) (1)
State Teachers College at Towson. (1)
State University Railroad Co. (1)
State University Railroad Company -- History (2)
Stonewood Insurance Company (Chapel Hill, N.C.) -- Auditing (1)
Strong Memorial Hospital (1 works · 2 headings)
Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) (6)
Students for Economic Justice (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (1)
Sugg High School (1)
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About Orange County Indexed
Orange County Indexed brings together records about Orange County from twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina, the Digital Public Library of America, DataCite, and Crossref. This page searches the full index, including books, maps, archival collections, government documents, campus materials, digitized primary sources, and published research about the county.
Filters and browse terms are derived from source catalog headings, which remain available in the Complete Subject Index. Every result links to its source record. Use Advanced options to narrow the results, browse books held by OCPL, or download the index as a spreadsheet.
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