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Civil War 150: Women in the Confederacy

Mar 4th, 2013
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North Carolina Women of Confederacy book coverIn honor of March being Women’s History Month, I thought I would highlight an interesting book I found in our genealogy collection at the Government & Heritage Library – North Carolina Women of the Confederacy as well as a few other resources.

Although women did not serve in the military, women had helped the cause, often taking control of the land in their husband’s absence.  Many also filled the absence of men in industry and manufacturing as well. North Carolina Women of the Confederacy was originally published in 1926 and the United Daughters of the Confederacy Cape Fear Chapter received permission from the author’s heirs to reprint and update it.  The book is a great resource about how women in North Carolina helped the Confederate cause and there are many cases to illustrate points throughout the book about specific women.  For example, pages 71-73 give a story about Mrs. Eliza Hicks.  She made clothing for soldiers who passed by the family plantation and her house became a courier station. The index in the back of the book is full of names of women who helped Confederacy.

Another resources is an article written by the North Carolina Civil War Sesquicentennial entitled The Home Front, which discusses women helped on the home front.

Monument to North Carolina Women in the Confederacy

Image courtesy of NCDCR – Monument at the North Carolina State Capitol to Confederate Women in North Carolina

In 1914, North Carolina erected the monument above on the grounds of the State Capitol building in Raleigh, NC to acknowledge their part in the Civil War.

To find more resources for Women’s History Month, please visit the Government & Heritage Library’s page specifically created for this topic: http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ghl/themes/march.html

To few biographies of women from North Carolina, please visit NCpedia‘s page: http://ncpedia.org/biography/women

To learn about the education of women in North Carolina, please visit NCpedia‘s page: http://ncpedia.org/education-women

 

New Additions: Emancipation 150

Jan 1st, 2013
by Maria (acqserials).
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New additions to the collections of the Government and Heritage Library:

Aftermath of Slavery: A Study of the Condition and Environment of the American Negro, by William Sinclair, Southern Classics Series. First published in 1905, The Aftermath of Slavery provides a historical analysis of the late 19th century highlighting black resistance to white domination during slavery and Reconstruction. This book enlightens our understanding of the issues of citizenship, peace, and violence in the years directly following emancipation.  The author was born a slave in 1858 and grew up in South Carolina.

 

 

America’s War: Talking about the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries, Edward Ayers, Ed. Commentaries in this book highlight the global significance of the Civil War and how historical understanding of the conflict has changed in the last 50 years. The book also recounts the experience of African Americans during the war, which varied widely –  finding freedom,  taking up arms on either side, or continuing to labor as slaves on farms and plantations.

 

 

 

Slavery’s Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation, by Richard Follett, Eric Foner, and Walter Johnson. This collection of essays examines the ways in which former bondspeople, slaveholders, military and civic leaders addressed the abolition of slavery and the “problem of freedom.” It also presents the experience of the recently emancipated in their efforts to reconcile their economic and political liberties with the emerging free labor structure. The book recounts how ingrained patterns of behavior, thought and economics limited Black freedom in the age of emancipation.

 

 

 

Library materials will be available for check out at the Government and Heritage Library by North Carolina State Agency employees or may be borrowed through an interlibrary loan request at your local public library. To view other new library acquisitions, click here.

New Additions: Women’s History

Nov 27th, 2012
by Maria (acqserials).
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New additions to the collections of the Government and Heritage Library:

Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston, by Amrita Myers. The author recounts and illuminates the struggles of African American women for rights, dignity, familial stability, and economic success and the tenuous security their lives and freedom in this process. How women used negotiation to gain freedom is highlighted.

 

 

 

Quaker Women of Carolina, by Seth Hinshaw and Mary Hinshaw. The authors present a survey of notable North Carolina Quaker women and a history of early women Quaker pioneers [Genealogy Collection].

 

 

Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World, by Mary Norton. This book reveals how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo -American public sphere recounting the shift in  attitudes towards women’s participation in public and political arenas and the men behind the changes.

General library materials will be available for check out at the Government and Heritage Library by North Carolina State Agency employees or may be borrowed through an interlibrary loan request at your local public library. Genealogy titles are only available on-site at the Government and Heritage Library. To view other new library acquisitions, click here.

New Additions: The History of Slavery

Sep 18th, 2012
by Maria (acqserials).
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New additions to the collections of the Government and Heritage Library:

The Black Family in Slavery & Freedom, 1750-1925, by Herbert Gutman. The author rewrites the history of the black family through  historical research on the nature of kinship in Afro-American culture and demonstrates how enslavement and poverty did not shatter black family ties.

Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom, by Ariela Gross. This book examines how hundreds of antebellum legal cases between blacks, whites and those “in-between” were litigated and how the practice of law in the U.S. antebellum South was interwoven with the practice of slavery.

 

To Free a Family: the Journey of Mary Walker, by Sydney Nathans. Through a portrait of a runaway slave, the author describes the world of fugitives, separation from loved ones, and the struggle to reunite with families broken by slavery.

 

 

 

Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820-1860, by Claudia Goldin. This book recounts the surprising history of the economics of urban slavery the 19th century.

 

 

 

A Way Out of No Way: Claiming Family and Freedom in the New South, by Dianne Swann-Wright. The author captures and relates the history of her ancestors – African Americans in central Virginia- after the Civil War and describes the transition from the master slave relationship to that of employer employee and how the emancipated learned to be free.


Library materials will be available for check out at the Government and Heritage Library by North Carolina State Agency employees or may be borrowed through an interlibrary loan request at your local public library. To view other new library acquisitions, click here.

 

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