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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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Looking for the original language used in library catalogs? The Complete Subject Index contains all 26,205 subject headings connected to these records. Related headings, such as spelling variants of a person’s name or headings that share a common beginning, are grouped into 13,544 browse terms.
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Vaccinia (1)
Vacuum pumps (1)
Valuation (3 works · 2 headings)
Vampires (1 works · 2 headings)
Van Hecke-Wettach Hall (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (1)
Van Hook, Kindle (1)
Van Seters, John (1)
Vanatta, E. S. (1)
Vance County (N.C.) (12 works · 6 headings)
Vance, R. B. (1)
Vanceboro (N.C.) (1)
Vanhook, David (1)
Vanhook, George (1)
Vanhook, Kindle (1)
Vanhook, Soloman (1)
Vaulting (1)
Vegetation surveys (1 works · 2 headings)
Vehicle maintenance & repair (4)
Veracruz (3)
Vermont (2)
Vernon, Francis (1st Viscount Orwell and 1st Earl of Shipbrook) (1)
Vernon, J. H. -- Correspondence (1)
Vertebrates (2 works · 2 headings)
Vessels (1)
Veterans (82 works · 10 headings)
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Veterans (79)
Veterans -- Confederate States of America (1)
Veterans -- Education (Higher) (2)
Veterans -- Education (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (2)
Veterans -- Housing -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (1)
Veterans -- Mental health services (1)
Veterinarians (2 works · 2 headings)
Veterinary prescriptions (1 works · 2 headings)
Viaje A Traves Del Tiempo -- Ficción (1)
Vice (1)
Victory (Ship) (1)
Video recordings (3)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired (1)
Video rental services (1 works · 2 headings)
Video tapes (2 works · 2 headings)
Video tapes in education (1 works · 2 headings)
Vietnam (3 works · 2 headings)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 (18 works · 7 headings)
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Public opinion (2)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American (1)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements (1)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (11)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Exhibitions (1)
Vigils (1)
Village of Fearrington (Pittsboro, N.C.) -- History (1)
Villages (1 works · 2 headings)
Villines, Tutie (1)
Vine, Louis L. (1)
Vineyards (1 works · 5 headings)
Vinters, Carl (1)
Violence (3 works · 3 headings)
Violent crimes (1 works · 3 headings)
Violet K. Galvin (1)
Viral vaccines (1)
Virginia (92 works · 12 headings)
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Virginia (77)
Virginia -- Arlington County (1)
Virginia -- Brunswick County (1)
Virginia -- Economic conditions (1)
Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 (6)
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources (3)
Virginia -- Pictorial works (1)
Virginia Cotton Mills (Swepsonville, N.C.) (1)
Virginia Tech Shootings (Blacksburg, Virginia : 2007) (1)
Visits of state (1)
Vitale, Dick (1)
Vocational guidance (9 works · 4 headings)
Volcanic ash, tuff, etc (1 works · 2 headings)
Volcanoes (2)
Volleyball (3)
Volleyball for women (3 works · 3 headings)
Voluntarism (3 works · 2 headings)
Volunteer workers in hospitals (1)
Volunteer workers in social service (6 works · 3 headings)
Volunteers (4)
Voter registration (5 works · 5 headings)
Voting (12 works · 12 headings)
Voting (10)
Voting -- North Carolina -- Carrboro (1)
Voting -- North Carolina -- Carrboro -- Periodicals (1)
Voting -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (2)
Voting -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Periodicals (3)
Voting -- North Carolina -- Hillsborough (1)
Voting -- North Carolina -- Hillsborough -- Periodicals (1)
Voting -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Maps (1)
Voting -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Periodicals (1)
Voting registers (2)
voting, government, assembly, appointment, town, law and order, sheriff, land, Quakers (1)
Voyages and travels (6 works · 2 headings)
Vultures (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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