Highlights of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural History
Title | Highlights of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural History PDF eBook |
Author | North Carolina. Department of Agriculture |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 1983* |
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The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
Title | The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 1991 |
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A Long Look at Nature
Title | A Long Look at Nature PDF eBook |
Author | North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780807849859 |
What does a jar of preserved leopard frogs or the articulated skeleton of a beached sperm whale say about the way we understand nature in North Carolina? Margaret Martin explores this question in the story of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sci
North Carolina State Museum of Natural History
Title | North Carolina State Museum of Natural History PDF eBook |
Author | North Carolina State Museum of Natural History |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 198? |
Genre | Natural history museums |
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The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences
Title | The North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences PDF eBook |
Author | North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 1999 |
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North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885
Title | North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885 PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2020-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807173789 |
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.
Birds of North Carolina
Title | Birds of North Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Gilbert Pearson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Birds |
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