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A Record of the War Activities in Orange Country, North Carolina

Tobacco from Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War

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General, African Americans, Evolution Controversy, Temperance & Prohibition

General

Betts, A. D. (Alexander Davis), 1832-1918
Experience of a Confederate Chaplain, 1861-1864

[Greenville? S. C.: s.n., 190-?]. 103 p.
Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad: Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents

Cincinnati: Robert Clark & Co., 1880. viii, 3-732 p.
Compton, Lucius B. (Lucius Bunyan), 1875-1948
Life of Lucius B. Compton, the Mountain Evangelist, or, From the Depths of Sin to the Heights of Holiness

Cincinnati, Ohio: Office of God's Revivalist, c1903. 102 p.
Crooks, E. W. (Elizabeth Willets)
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M.

Syracuse, N.Y.: Published by D. S. Kinney, Wesleyan Methodist Publishing House, 1875. iv, 8-312 p.
Foote, William Henry, 1794-1869
Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers

New York: Robert Carter, 1846. 557, [8] p.
Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989
Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937. xvi, 935 p.
Lawrence, Joshua, 1778-1843
The American Telescope, by a Clodhopper, of North Carolina

Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1825. 24 p.
McCorkle, Samuel Eusebius, 1746-1811
A Charity Sermon. First Delivered in Salisbury, July 28; and Afterwards in Other Places in Rowan, and the Counties Adjoining; Particularly at Sugar's Creek, in Mecklenburg County, at the Opening of the Synod of the Carolinas, October 2: and Last, at the Meeting of the Hon. The General Assembly of North-Carolina in Fayetteville, December, 1793. By the Rev. Samuel E. M'Corkle, D.D. Pastor of the Church at Thyatira and Salisbury in Rowan County, North-Carolina.

Halifax, NC: Abraham Hodge, 1795. [1]-64 p.
North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends (1698- )
The Discipline of Friends, Revised and Approved by the Yearly Meeting Held at New-Garden, in Guilford County, North-Carolina, from the 4th to the 7th of the 11th Month, Inclusive, 1822

Hillsborough [N.C.]: Printed by Dennis Heartt, 1823. 28 p.
North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends (1698- )
Minutes of North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held at New Garden on Second-Day, the Fifth of Eleventh Month, 1866

Greensboro, N.C.: A. W. Ingold, 1866. 16 p.
North Carolina. Board of Agriculture
North Carolina and Its Resources

Winston: M.I. & J.C. Stewart, Public Printers and Binders, 1896. xv, 413, [65] p.
Olive, Johnson, 1816-1885
One of the Wonders of the Age, or, The Life and Times of Rev. Johnson Olive, Wake County, North Carolina

Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co., 1886. 314 p.
Patton, James, 1756-1845
Biography of James Patton

Asheville, N.C.: [s.n.], 1850. 34 p.
Pettigrew, Charles, 1744-1807
Last Advice of the Rev. Charles Pettigrew to His Sons, 1797

[S. l.: s. n., 1904?]. 12 p.
Polk, L. L. (Leonidas La Fayette), 1837-1892
Tabulated Statement of Industries & Resources of North Carolina

[Raleigh]: [N.C. Department of Agriculture], 1878. 40 p.
Purviance, Levi
The Biography of Elder David Purviance, with His Memoirs: Containing His Views on Baptism, the Divinity of Christ, and the Atonement. Written by Himself: with an Appendix; Giving Biographical Sketches of Elders John Hardy, Reuben Dooly, William Dye, Thos. Kyle, George Shidler, William Kinkade, Thomas Adams, Samuel Kyle, and Nathan Worley. Together with a Historical Sketch of the Great Kentucky Revival

Dayton: For the author by B. F. & G. W. Ells, 1848. viii, 9-304 p.
Rowland, Henry A. (Henry Augustus), 1804-1859
The Real Glory of a Church. A Dedication Sermon, Preached in Fayetteville, North-Carolina, at the Opening of the Presbyterian Church, Which Was Destroyed by Fire in the Conflagration of the Town on the 29th of May, 1831, and Re-built and Dedicated August 12th, 1832. To Which Is Appended an Acount [sic] of the Destruction of Fayettevil[le]

New York: Jonathan Leavitt and John P. Haven, 1832. 34 p.
Weeks, Stephen Beauregard, 1865-1918
A History of the Young Men's Christian Association Movement in North Carolina. 1857-1888. Read before the Twelfth Annual State Convention in Charlotte, N.C., April 21, 1888, and Published by the Executive Committee at the Request of the Convention

Raleigh, N.C.: Observer Printing Company, 1888. 20 p.
York, Brantley, 1805-1891
The Autobiography of Brantley York

Durham, NC: The Seeman Printery, 1910. xv, 139 p.

African Americans

Bassett, John Spencer, 1867-1928
Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1896. 86, [x] p.
Bassett, John Spencer, 1867-1928
Slavery in the State of North Carolina

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1899. 111, xi p.
edited by W. E. B. Du Bois
Economic Co-operation among Negro Americans. Report of a Study made by Atlanta University, under the Patronage of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., together with the Proceedings of the 12th Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on Tuesday, May the 28th, 1907

Atlanta, Ga.: The Atlanta University Press, 1907. 184 p.
Ferebee, L. R. (London R.), b. 1849
A Brief History of the Slave Life of Rev. L. R. Ferebee, and the Battles of Life, and Four Years of His Ministerial Life. Written from Memory. To 1882

Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co., Steam Printers, Publishers and Binders, 1882. 22 p.
Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989
Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937. xvi, 935 p.
Larkins, John R. (John Rodman)
The Negro Population of North Carolina: Social and Economic

Raleigh: North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, [1944]. 79 p.
Latta, M. L. (Morgan London), b. 1853
illustrated by The Tucker Engraving Company
The History of My Life and Work. Autobiography by Rev. M. L. Latta, A.M., D.D.

Raleigh, Montreal [etc.]: M. L. Latta, [1903]. 371 p.
Weeks, Stephen Beauregard, 1865-1918
John Chavis. Antebellum Negro Preacher and Teacher

From The Southern Workman (February 1914). Hampton, Va.: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1914. 8 p.

Evolution Controversy

Kurfees, John W.
Everybody Read!!! The Fight is On!! The Issue is Clear Cut

[Winston Salem?]: [s. n.], [1926?]. [4] p.
Upchurch, J. Sherwood, 1870 - 1950
I Did Not Come from Him, Neither Did You! I May Look Like Him, But I Refuse to Claim Kin On This I Stand! J. Sherwood Upchurch. They Are Going to Talk About Him in the Next Legislature, So They Say I Want to Be There!

Raleigh, N.C.: Mitchell Printing Co., 1926. 1 p.

Temperance & Prohibition

Anti-Saloon League of Charlotte, N.C.
It Helps Business and Is a Blessing. What Leading Business Men, Bankers, Farmers, Laborers and Others Say about Prohibition in Charlotte, N.C.

Charlotte, N. C.: Executive Committee of Anti-Saloon League, 1908. 32 p.
Doak, Frances Renfrow
Why North Carolina Voted Dry

Raleigh: Capital Printing Co., 1934. 26 p.
Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989
Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937. xvi, 935 p.
Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857
Arguments for Temperance; A Sermon Addressed to the Students of the University of North Carolina, March 13th, 1831, and Published by Their Request

Raleigh: J. Gales & Son, 1831. [ii], 29 p.
No Author
Resolutions of the Friends of Temperance of Guilford County, Passed, July Fouth [sic], 1854

[Guilford County, N.C.]: [s.n.], [1854]. 1 p.
North Carolina Anti-Saloon League
Recent Utterances on State Prohibition Compiled by the North Carolina Anti-Saloon League

[North Carolina?]: s.n., 1908. 15 p.
Shaw, William A., 1804-1885
Lectures on the Utility of Temperance Societies. Lecture I. On Intemperance as a National Evil. Lecture II. On Intemperance as a Source of Disease. Lecture III. On Temperance Societies

Washington, N.C.: [s.n.], 1832. iii-iv, 35 p.
United Dry Forces of North Carolina
Crime and Drunkenness Increase under So-Called "Control"

[North Carolina]: [United Dry Forces of North Carolina], [1937]. 1 p.