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- 1835 amendments to the North Carolina Constitution
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.3
- Amendments to the North Carolina state constitution passed in 1835. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: constitution/primary source
- 1853 map of North Carolina
- Map titled "A new map of Nth. Carolina: with its canals, roads & distances from place to place, along the stage & steam boat routes." Shows North Carolina as it existed c. 1850.
- Format: image/map
- Academies for boys and for girls
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 5.10
- In North Carolina History: A Sampler, page 4.2
- Various newspaper advertisements for academies or boarding schools in the Piedmont of North Carolina between 1838 and 1840. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper/primary source
- Advertising for slaves
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 1.10
- Advertisements for sales of slaves and for runaways in the Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, North Carolina), January 7, 1837. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper/primary source
- The Alamance Cotton Mill
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 4.7
- In 1837, Edwin Holt founded the Alamance Cotton Mill, which began the industrial development of Alamance County. The mill produced the first colored fabrics in the South, including the popular "Alamance Plaid."
- Format: article
- All hail to thee, thou good old state
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 6.8
- A poem by Mary Bayard Devereux Clarke, North Carolina writer and editor, written in 1854. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: poetry/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Antebellum North Carolina
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the antebellum period (1830–1860). Topics include slavery, daily life, agriculture, industry, technology, and the arts, as well as the events leading to secession and civil war.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Antislavery feeling in the mountains
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 1.12
- In this excerpt from his book (1860), Frederick Law Olmsted describes his interactions with residents of the Appalachian region and their opinions on slavery. Includes historical commentary. Note: This source contains explicit language or content that requires mature discussion.
- Format: book/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- The Ballad of Frankie Silver
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 6.7
- Frankie Silver was hanged in Morganton in 1833 for the murder of her husband. According to legend, she sang her confession from the gallows. This version of her "ballad" was printed in a Morganton newspaper in 1884.
- Format: music/primary source
- Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts in Wilmington, NC
- This is the Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts in Wilmington, North Carolina. This mansion is a premier architectural and historical treasure in North Carolina, a spectacular example of antebellum architecture. The Bellamy Mansion offers tours,...
- Format: image/photograph
- A bilious fever
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 2.9
- Excerpt from an 1850 novel in which the author describes the illness he succumbed to on a trip to Nag's Head. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Black codes
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 1.9
- Excerpts from the North Carolina Revised Code of 1855 with respect to free and enslaved African Americans, known as the "black codes." Includes historical commentary.
- Format: legislation/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.
- Businesses by county, 1854
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 4.3
- In North Carolina History: A Sampler, page 9.3
- In this activity, students explore an excerpt from the Southern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser of 1854 to learn about business and town life in antebellum North Carolina.
- Format: activity
- A camp meeting scene
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 3.3
- Description of a typical camp meeting during the Second Great Awakening of the early nineteenth century, including preaching, conversion experiences, and the physical arrangement of the meetings.
- Format: book
- Col. Fremont planting the American standard on the Rocky Mountains
- Proof for a large woodcut campaign banner or poster for John C. Fremont, Republican presidential contender in 1856. Fremont is shown in full-length on a mountain peak, planting an American flag. He is clad in fringed trousers and military coat and waves a...
- Format: image/poster
- The Confessions of Nat Turner
- The book by Thomas R. Gray, allegedly containing the prison "confession" of Nat Turner, an enslaved man who led an 1831 insurrection in Southampton, Virginia.
- Format: book/primary source
- Court days
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 2.8
- Excerpt from an 1857 novel in which the author, a tutor from the North living in Bertie County, North Carolina, describes the people and events he saw at court days. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Criminal law and reform
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.6
- In the early nineteenth century, North Carolina had more than two dozen crimes punishable by death, and the state kept a variety of physical and humiliating punishments on the books as well. Reformers tried to make the criminal code clearer and more humane, but they made little progress before the Civil War.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Diary of a farm wife
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 2.4
- In North Carolina History: A Sampler, page 3.3
- April 1854 Page from Penelope Alderman diary. Mond. 3. Wove some. Mr. A. ploughing and...
- Format: diary/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Diary of a planter
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 2.3
- Excerpt from the diary of Henry W. Harrington, Jr., a plantation owner in Richmond County, North Carolina. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: diary/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood and David Walbert.
