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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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O'Connor, John D (2)
O. H. Dockery (1)
Oak (1)
Oak Ridge (N.C.) (1)
Oak Ridge Regional Symposium (4th : 1955 : Durham, N.C.; Raleigh, N.C.; Chapel Hill, N.C.) (1)
Oaks (1)
Oakwood Cemetery (1)
Oakwood Cemetery (Raleigh, N.C.) (1)
Oaths (13 works · 2 headings)
Oats (1)
Obituaries (30 works · 4 headings)
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder -- Fiction (1)
Obstetrics (3 works · 9 headings)
Ocavius Augustus Wiggins, 1844-1909 (1)
Occaneches Indians (13)
Occaneechee Mountain Park (Hillsborough, N.C.) (2 works · 2 headings)
Occaneechi Indians (33 works · 14 headings)
All 33 works under “Occaneechi Indians” →
Occaneechi Indians (23)
Occaneechi Indians -- Antiquities (3)
Occaneechi Indians -- Fiction (1)
Occaneechi Indians -- Folklore -- Juvenile Literature (1)
Occaneechi Indians -- Genealogy (7)
Occaneechi Indians -- History (5)
Occaneechi Indians -- History -- Sources (1)
Occaneechi Indians -- North Carolina (7)
Occaneechi Indians -- North Carolina -- Antiquities (1)
Occaneechi Indians -- North Carolina -- Hillsborough -- Antiquities (1)
Occaneechi Indians -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century (1)
Occaneechi Indians -- North Carolina -- Mecklenburg County (1)
Occaneechi Indians -- North Carolina -- Social life and customs (1)
Occaneechi Town Site (N.C.) (4 works · 2 headings)
Occanichi Indians (12)
Occanuchee Indians (12)
Occoneechee Hotel (Hillsborough, N.C.) (1)
Occoneechee Indians (12)
Occoneechee Mountain Park (Hillsborough, N.C.) -- Maps (2)
Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area (N.C.) (2 works · 2 headings)
Occupations (5 works · 6 headings)
All 5 works under “Occupations” →
Occupations (2)
Occupations -- Classification (1)
Occupations -- North Carolina -- Alamance County -- Statistics (2)
Occupations -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Exhibitions (1)
Occupations -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Statistics (2)
Occupations -- North Carolina -- Randolph County -- Statistics (2)
Occupy movement (1 works · 2 headings)
Ocheneechee Indians (12)
Ocracoke (N.C.) (2)
Ocracoke Island (1)
Odessa Records (1)
Of time and the river (Wolfe, Thomas) (1)
Offenses against public safety (1 works · 2 headings)
Office Building (1)
Office buildings (2 works · 3 headings)
Officer (32)
Ohio (3 works · 2 headings)
Ohio River (6)
Okenechee Indians (12)
Okinawa Island (Japan) -- Maps (1)
Okoroma, Edwin (1)
Old age assistance (1 works · 2 headings)
Old Book Corner (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (1 works · 2 headings)
Old Chapel Hill Cemetery (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (10 works · 3 headings)
Old Chapel Hill Cemetery -- Archival Material (1)
Old Chapel Hill Cemetery Task Force (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (1)
Old East (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (2)
Old Highway Building (Raleigh) (1)
Old Town Cemetery (Hillsborough, N.C.) (1)
Old Well (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (16 works · 4 headings)
Old Well (N.C.) (1)
Old-time music (5 works · 2 headings)
Older people (19 works · 25 headings)
All 19 works under “Older people” →
Older people (13)
Older people -- Care -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (1)
Older people -- Care -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Directories (2)
Older people -- Family relationships -- History -- 20th century (1)
Older people -- Housing -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (1)
Older people -- Medical care (1)
Older people -- Medical care -- North Carolina -- Orange County (1)
Older people -- North Carolina (1)
Older people -- North Carolina -- Carrboro (1)
Older people -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (1)
Older people -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Biography (1)
Older people -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Interviews (1)
Older people -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Literary collections (2)
Older people -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Societies and clubs (1)
Older people -- Services for (7)
Older people -- Services for -- North Carolina -- Carrboro (1)
Older people -- Services for -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (2)
Older people -- Services for -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Planning (1)
Older people -- Services for -- North Carolina -- Orange County (1)
Older people -- Services for -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Directories (2)
Older people -- Services for -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Periodicals (1)
Older people -- Services for -- North Carolina -- Periodicals (1)
Older people's writings, American (5 works · 3 headings)
Older women (3 works · 2 headings)
Olds, Fred A. (1)
Olds, Frederick (1)
Olympic Games (2)
Olympic Games (26th : 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.) (2)
Olympics (2 works · 2 headings)
On the road with Charles Kuralt (Television program) (1)
Oncologists -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Directories (1)
Onslow County (2)
Onslow County (N.C.) (22 works · 5 headings)
Open spaces (15 works · 14 headings)
All 15 works under “Open spaces” →
Open spaces (8)
Open spaces -- North Carolina -- Carrboro (1)
Open spaces -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (2)
Open spaces -- North Carolina -- Chatham County (4)
Open spaces -- North Carolina -- Durham County (6)
Open Spaces -- North Carolina -- Durham County -- Planning (1)
Open spaces -- North Carolina -- Johnston County (4)
Open spaces -- North Carolina -- Lee County (4)
Open spaces -- North Carolina -- Orange County (9)
Open spaces -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Planning (2)
Open spaces -- North Carolina -- Research Triangle (1)
Open-air theatrical productions (1)
Operas (8 works · 10 headings)
Operas (1)
Operas -- Excerpts -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (1)
Operas -- Italy -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (3)
Operas -- Italy -- Librettos (1)
Operas -- Librettos -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (3)
Operas -- Librettos -- Bibliography -- Methodology -- Data processing (1)
Operas -- Librettos -- Catalogs (1)
Operas -- Scores (1)
Operation Breakthrough (Durham, N.C.) (1)
Ophthalmology -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (1)
Oral histories (10)
Oral history (11 works · 2 headings)
Oral interpretation (1 works · 2 headings)
Oral tradition (4 works · 3 headings)
Orange County (2 works · 2 headings)
Orange County (N.C) -- Maps (1)
Orange County (N.C.) Board of Commissioners (4)
Orange County (N.C.) Board of Education -- Auditing (2)
Orange County (N.C.) Planning Board (1)
Orange County Artists Guild (N.C.) -- Periodicals (1)
Orange County Board of Commissioners (3 works · 2 headings)
Orange County Courthouse (Hillsborough, N.C.) (1)
Orange County Partnership for Young Children (2 works · 2 headings)
Orange County SANE/Freeze -- Periodicals (1)
Orange County Schools (N.C.) (8)
Orange County, North Carolina (1)
Orange Soil and Water Conservation District (N.C.) (1)
Orange/Durham YWCA Coalition for Battered Women (Durham, N.C.) -- Periodicals (1)
Orators (2)
Order of Gimghoul (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (13 works · 5 headings)
Order of the Crown in America (1 works · 2 headings)
Order of the Eastern Star. Grand Chapter of North Carolina. (1)
Order of the First Crusade (1)
Order statistics (1)
order, council, legislation (1)
Orders (1)
Ordinances, Municipal (12 works · 3 headings)
Oregon (1)
Organic farming (1 works · 3 headings)
Organization of American Historians (1)
Organizational behavior (2 works · 2 headings)
Organizational change (1 works · 2 headings)
Organizations (1)
Organizations, Societies and Advocacy Groups (1)
Organized crime (1 works · 2 headings)
Organs (1)
Origin and destination traffic surveys (2 works · 2 headings)
Orphans (2 works · 2 headings)
Orthodontics -- North Carolina (1)
Orthopedic surgery (1 works · 2 headings)
Orthopedics (1 works · 4 headings)
Orthophotography -- North Carolina -- Orange County (1)
Orthophotomaps -- North Carolina -- Orange County (1)
Orwell, Mr (1)
Osborn, Adlai (1)
Osborn, Robert T (1)
Osborne, John (1)
Otis, Brooks (1 works · 2 headings)
Otis, James Jr (1)
Outbuildings -- North Carolina -- Hillsborough -- Pictorial Works (1)
Outcome Assessment, Health Care (1)
Outdoor recreation (16 works · 6 headings)
Outlaws (2)
Overseers (2)
Owen, John (1)
Owls (1)
Oxford (1)
Oxford (Miss.) -- Pictorial works (1)
Oxford (N.C.) (8 works · 6 headings)
Ozer, Marilyn (1)
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These headings come from Library of Congress and local vocabularies used by the participating libraries. Counts show linked works in Orange County Indexed. Related headings are grouped automatically, and the People section combines common name variants. Report corrections through the contact form.
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.
Automated grouping makes broad discovery possible but may not resolve every ambiguity. Corrections and additions are welcome through the contact form.
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