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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

Topical Access to African Americans

Fiction & Folk Culture, Free African Americans, Postbellum, 20th Century & Race Relations

Fiction & Folk Culture

Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932
The Colonel's Dream

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. ix, 294 p.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932
The Conjure Woman

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. 229 p.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932
Frederick Douglass

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899. [vii]-xix, 141, [2] p.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932
The House Behind the Cedars

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. 294 p.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932
The Marrow of Tradition

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. vi, 329 p.
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932
illustrated by Clyde O. De Land
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. 323 p.
Horton, George Moses, 1798?-ca. 1880
The Hope of Liberty. Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces

Raleigh: J. Gales & Son, 1829. [1-3], 4-22 p.
Horton, George Moses, 1798?-ca. 1880
Life of George M. Horton. The Colored Bard of North Carolina from "The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, the Colored Bard of North Carolina, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, written by himself."

Hillsborough: Heartt, 1845. 20 p.
Horton, George Moses, 1798?-ca. 1880
The Poetical Works of George M. Horton: The Colored Bard of North Carolina: To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself

Hillsborough [N.C.]: Printed by D. Heartt, 1845. xx, 96 p.
Thorne, Jack, b. 1863
Hanover; or, The Persecution of the Lowly. Story of the Wilmington Massacre

[S.l.]: M.C.L. Hill, [18-?]. 136 p.

Free 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.
Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989
Ante-Bellum North Carolina: A Social History

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937. xvi, 935 p.
Melbourn, Julius, b. 1790
edited by Jabez D. Hammond
Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn; with Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and Several Other Eminent American Statesmen

Syracuse: Hall & Dickson, 1847. 239 p.
North Carolina
Slaves and Free Persons of Color. An Act Concerning Slaves and Free Persons of Color.

[S. l.]: [s. n.], [1855]. 10 p.
North Carolina. Constitutional Convention (1835)
Journal of the Convention, Called by the Freemen of North-Carolina, to Amend the Constitution of the State, Which Assembled in the City of Raleigh, on the 4th of June, 1835, and Continued in Session Until the 11th Day of July Thereafter

Raleigh: Printed by J. Gales & Son, 1835. 106 p.
North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate
Senate Bill No. 27: A Bill to Regulate the Free Negro Population within this State

[Raleigh, NC?]: John Spelman, Printer to the State, [1861?]. 7 p.
North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate
Senate Bill No. 8: A Bill to Permit Free Persons of Color to Select their Own Masters and Become Slaves

[Raleigh, NC?]: John Spelman, Printer to the State, [1861?]. 3 p.
Taylor, Rosser H. (Rosser Howard), b. 1891
The Free Negro in North Carolina

Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University, 1920. [5]-26 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.

Postbellum

Connor, R. D. W. (Robert Digges Wimberly), 1878-1950 and
Poe, Clarence Hamilton, 1881-
The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912. xxiii, 369, [1] p.
Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946
illustrated by C. D. Williams
The Leopard's Spots. A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865-1900

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902. xiii, 469 p.
Dixon, Thomas, 1864-1946
illustrated by Arthur I. Keller
The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905. 374 p.
Kirk, J. Allen
A Statement of Facts Concerning the Bloody Riot in Wilmington, N.C. Of Interest to Every Citizen of the United States

[Wilmington?, N. C.: The Author?, 1898?]. 16 p.
Miller, J. F. (John Fulenwider), 1834-1905
The Effects of Emancipation upon the Mental and Physical Health of the Negro of the South

[Wilmington, N.C.]: [s. n.], [1896]. 10 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.
Thorne, Jack, b. 1863
Hanover; or, The Persecution of the Lowly. Story of the Wilmington Massacre

[S.l.]: M.C.L. Hill, [18-?]. 136 p.
White, George H. (George Henry), 1852-1918
Defense of the Negro Race--Charges Answered. Speech of Hon. George H. White, of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives, January 29, 1901

Washington, D.C.: [G.P.O.], 1901. 14 p.

20th Century & Race Relations

Andrews, R. McCants (Robert McCants)
John Merrick. A Biographical Sketch

[Durham, N.C.: Press of the Seeman Printery, 1920]. 229 p.
Avery, Isaac Erwin, 1871-1904
Idle Comments

Charlotte, N.C.: Avery, 1905. xviii, 1-271 p.
Clark, Walter McKenzie, 1846-1924
The Negro in North Carolina and the South. His Fifty-five Years of Freedom and What He Has Done. Commencement Address at St. Augustine's School, Raleigh, N. C., May 26, 1920, by Chief Justice Walter Clark, of North Carolina

From St. Augustine's Record, Vol. 25, no. 5. Raleigh, N. C.: [St. Augustine's School?], 1920. 8 p.
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
Southern Women and Race Coöperation. A Story of the Memphis Conference, October Sixth and Seventh, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty

S. l.: The Commission, 1921. 16 p.
Connor, R. D. W. (Robert Digges Wimberly), 1878-1950 and
Poe, Clarence Hamilton, 1881-
The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912. xxiii, 369, [1] 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.
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
The Upbuilding of Black Durham. The Success of the Negroes and Their Value to a Tolerant and Helpful Southern City

From World's Work, vol. 23 (Jan. 1912). [S. l.: s. n., 1912]. [334-338] p.
Green, John Patterson, b. 1845
Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There

[Cleveland?]: [s.n.], 1880. 205 p.
Hays, Benjamin K., fl. 1887-1918
Natural Selection and the Race Problem

Charlotte, N.C.: Charlotte Medical Journal, 1905. 21 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.
Thorne, Jack, b. 1863
"Eagle Clippings" by Jack Thorne Newspaper Correspondent and Story Teller, A Collection of His Writings to Various Newspapers

[Brooklyn, N. Y.: D. B. Fulton, c1907]. [i], 116 p.