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Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina

Author : Larry J. Griffin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467135836
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina written by Larry J. Griffin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery is a tragic chapter in the history of Wilkes County with a lasting legacy. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County. Prominent businessmen and celebrated civic leaders, like General William Lenoir and William Pitt Waugh, were among the county's largest slaveholders. Judith Williams Barber endured forty-five years of slavery and garnered respect from both white and black residents. Her story is linked to free person of color and noted landowner Henderson Waugh, whose illustrious, slaveholding white father connected the two families--one slave and the other free. Author Larry Griffin takes readers on an emotional journey to separate fact from myth as he chronicles the history of slavery in Wilkes County.

Wilkes County, North Carolina: A Brief History

Author : Jennifer L. Pena
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540218025
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Wilkes County, North Carolina: A Brief History by : Jennifer L. Pena

Download or read book Wilkes County, North Carolina: A Brief History written by Jennifer L. Pena and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do NASCAR, Tom Dula and Lowe s Home Improvement have in common? They all came from Wilkes County, North Carolina. The foothills of Wilkes County are a region of unsurpassed beauty and captivating history. Cradled by the Blue Ridge and watered by the Yadkin River, the county has faced the Revolution and Civil War, cheered on moonshiner and revenuer alike and struggled mightily to become the North Carolina jewel it is today. Join local historians Jennifer Pena and Laurie Hayes as they tell the story of a county steeped in tradition and immersed in history."

Wilkes County

Author : Misty Bass
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738553085
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Wilkes County written by Misty Bass and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardy pioneers settled this area of the North Carolina backcountry in the 18th century. Perhaps best known for illegal whiskey and stock car racing, Wilkes County heritage also lies in agriculture and industry. Farmers toiled the land while industrialists and merchants built houses, businesses, railroads, and services in the county's three municipalities: Wilkesboro, North Wilkesboro, and Ronda. Major corporations Lowe's and Holly Farms were born here. Americana music is a staple of local culture, with popular festivals like MerleFest drawing international acclaim to the area. The enduring folkways and down-home values of this rural community have long made Wilkes County a place where the roots of family and history run deep.

A History of Watauga County, North Carolina

Author : John Preston Arthur
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806317120
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Watauga County, North Carolina by : John Preston Arthur

Download or read book A History of Watauga County, North Carolina written by John Preston Arthur and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2002 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tannery

Author : Michael A Almond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781646634873
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Tannery written by Michael A Almond and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Far more than a legal thriller, though it is that . . . Some of this tale will sound disturbingly familiar to readers in the 21st Century, all the more reason to consider its lessons. History can come alive in a work of great fiction. This is one of those times." -Frye Gaillard, Civil Rights Historian, Author of A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s July 5, 1900, Wilkes County, North Carolina: The beautiful young daughter of tannery owner Jakob Schumann is found dead on the north bank of the Yadkin River, brutally beaten, a skinning knife in her chest. Who killed Rachel Schumann? And why? Ambitious Wilkes prosecutor Vincent Taliaferro has arrested Virgil Wade, a mulatto boy, and is convinced the case is open and shut. But local lawyer Ben Waterman is not so sure. Ben's investigation uncovers evidence that undermines the prosecutor's case and points in an entirely different direction. But can he prove it? Can he convince an all-White, all-male jury of Virgil's innocence? The Tannery transports readers to the turbulent world of the post-Reconstruction South. Reflecting issues prominent in today's headlines, themes of Black voter suppression and intimidation, the violence and depravity of vigilante "justice," and the rise of Jim Crow drive the narrative to its dramatic and surprising conclusion.

The Heritage of Wilkes County, 1982

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894591891
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book The Heritage of Wilkes County, 1982 written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution

Author : Robert O. DeMond
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806308397
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution by : Robert O. DeMond

Download or read book The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution written by Robert O. DeMond and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1979 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the genealogist the Appendices in the back of the book will doubtless hold the greatest interest, for herein are found (1) lists of soldiers and civilians who supported the Crown throughout the Revolution; (2) lists of Loyalists who suffered land confiscation; (3) lists of Loyalists who made application to Great Britain for compensation for loss of office or property; and (4) lists of North Carolina Loyalists who received pensions from Great Britain.com/item_detail.cfm?ID=7144">7144.

A History of Watauga County, North Carolina

Author : John Preston Arthur
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932807663
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Watauga County, North Carolina by : John Preston Arthur

Download or read book A History of Watauga County, North Carolina written by John Preston Arthur and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-known history of Watauga County, North Carolina, is considered one of the best ever written. From Watauga County's 'Yankee Ancestry' to its role in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, nothing is overlooked.

North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885

Author : Warren Eugene Milteer Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807173770
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885 written by Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes,” “mulattoes,” “mustees,” “Indians,” “mixed-bloods,” or simply “free people of color.” From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these non-enslaved residents, from prohibiting their testimony against whites to barring them from the ballot box. While such laws suggest that most white North Carolinians desired to limit the freedoms and civil liberties enjoyed by free people of color, Milteer reveals that the two groups often interacted—praying together, working the same land, and occasionally sharing households and starting families. Some free people of color also rose to prominence in their communities, becoming successful businesspeople and winning the respect of their white neighbors. Milteer’s innovative study moves beyond depictions of the American South as a region controlled by a strict racial hierarchy. He contends that although North Carolinians frequently sorted themselves into races imbued with legal and social entitlements—with whites placing themselves above persons of color—those efforts regularly clashed with their concurrent recognition of class, gender, kinship, and occupational distinctions. Whites often determined the position of free nonwhites by designating them as either valuable or expendable members of society. In early North Carolina, free people of color of certain statuses enjoyed access to institutions unavailable even to some whites. Prior to 1835, for instance, some free men of color possessed the right to vote while the law disenfranchised all women, white and nonwhite included. North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885 demonstrates that conceptions of race were complex and fluid, defying easy characterization. Despite the reductive labels often assigned to them by whites, free people of color in the state emerged from an array of backgrounds, lived widely varied lives, and created distinct cultures—all of which, Milteer suggests, allowed them to adjust to and counter ever-evolving forms of racial discrimination.

The Colonial and State Political History of Hertford County, N.C.

Author : Benjamin Brodie Winborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Colonial and State Political History of Hertford County, N.C. written by Benjamin Brodie Winborne and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Perquimans County

Author : Ellen Goode Rawlings Winslow
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806379960
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book History of Perquimans County written by Ellen Goode Rawlings Winslow and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1974 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a county history that is extraordinarily rich in primary source materials, including abstracts of deeds from 1681 through the Revolutionary War period and, moreover, petitions, divisions of estates, wills, and marriages found in the records of Perquimans and adjacent North Carolina counties. Numbering in the tens of thousands, the records provide the names of all principal parties and related family members, places of residence and migration, descriptions of real and personal property, dates, boundary surveys, names of executors, witnesses, and appraisers, and dates of recording. Altogether, the index contains references to about 35,000 persons! Researchers should note that Perquimans was one of the original North Carolina precincts--with very close ties to the southeastern Virginia counties of Norfolk, Princess Anne, Nansemond, and Isle of Wight--and for many years had fluid boundaries with the North Carolina counties of Chowan, Gates, and Pasquotank.

Western North Carolina

Author : John Preston Arthur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Western North Carolina written by John Preston Arthur and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Sketches of North Carolina

Author : John Hill Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Sketches of North Carolina written by John Hill Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 2 has a county by county history and includes some brief family histories and lists of residents.

The Ore Knob Mine Murders

Author : Rose M. Haynes
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604436
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Ore Knob Mine Murders written by Rose M. Haynes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could the peace and quiet of Ashe County, North Carolina (in the mountains, at the Virginia-Tennessee corner), turn into a nightmare of crime and drugs, and the old copper mine itself become a dumping ground for the dead? In 1982, two bodies had been chipped from an icy grave and brought up from the 250-foot mine shaft where they had been thrown while still alive. Now, there were rumors of 21 bodies still down there. If the mine was ever re-opened, what would they find--copper or bodies? Murder, drugs, prostitution and gangs come together in the history of the Ore Knob Mine. A small Appalachian community became the heart of a vicious drug ring ruled by the Outlaws motorcycle gang from Chicago. Ashe County made national headlines when a police informant came forward confessing that he had pushed a man alive into the Ore Knob Mine shaft. This book is the full story.

The Founding of a Nation

Author : Merrill Jensen
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1647922038
Total Pages : 751 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book The Founding of a Nation written by Merrill Jensen and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-15 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explores popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence. It reconstructs the complex decisions that slowly, often painfully transformed a colonial rebellion into a genuine revolution. Jensen's well-paced narrative never loses sight of the ordinary men and women who confronted the most powerful empire in the world." --T.H. Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University

Stuart's Tarheels

Author : Chris J. Hartley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486902
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Stuart's Tarheels written by Chris J. Hartley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart said "North Carolina has done nobly in this army," he had one of his own men to thank: Brigadier General James Byron Gordon. A protege of Stuart, Gordon was the consummate nineteenth-century landowner, politician, and businessman. Despite a lack of military training, he rose rapidly through the ranks and, as the commander of all North Carolina cavalrymen in the Army of Northern Virginia, he helped bring unparalleled success to Stuart's famed Confederate cavalry. This updated biography, originally published in 1996, chronicles Gordon's early life and military career and, through his men, takes a fresh look at the vaunted Army of Northern Virginia--its battles, controversies, and troops. This second edition includes additional source material that has come to light and a roster of Gordon's 1st North Carolina Cavalry.

Biography of James Patton

Author : James Patton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022218130
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Biography of James Patton written by James Patton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating life of James Patton, who rose from humble origins to become a successful businessman and a respected member of his community. This comprehensive biography explores his early years, his career, his family life, and his legacy as a philanthropist. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.