Wagging tongues and tittle tattle : gossip, rumor, and reputation in a small Southern town
More than idle chatter -- Almost (but not quite) free -- School days, rule day -- To work the livelong day -- The plague of madness in our midst.
Pathway
Slavery, freedpeople, and Reconstruction in the county.
228 works in the index name this theme.
What it was and why it mattered
Newspapers, photographs, and records of the time
Organizations that keep the county’s own knowledge
Works across North Carolina libraries and archives whose catalog description names this theme. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.
More than idle chatter -- Almost (but not quite) free -- School days, rule day -- To work the livelong day -- The plague of madness in our midst.
Foreword / by Rev. Dr. William Barber II -- Chapter 1: New Hope Chapel Hill -- Chapter 2: The Black Wall Street of America -- Chapter 3: The Great Depression controversies -- Chapter 4: Hot as blazes -- Chapter 5: The u…
Ch. 1. A brief history of slavery in the United States -- ch. 2. Slavery and education in North Carolina -- ch. 3. Orange County North Carolina: formation of the county and the development of schools -- ch. 4. Free publ…
Relates the story of North Carolina slave George Moses Horton, who taught himself to read, learned to write, and became a well-known, published poet in spite of his slave status.
"The Smith fortune was made by Mary's grandfather, Revolutionary War veteran Francis Jones, and survived the profligacy of his son-in-law, Dr. James Smith, before being willed to the university and the North Carolina Ep…
What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? This book tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen yea…
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