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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
- 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
- Various newspaper advertisements for academies or boarding schools in the Piedmont of North Carolina between 1838 and 1840. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- 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
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- 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
- 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.
- Dorothea Dix Hospital
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.7
- Dorothea Dix, a reformer from New England, came to North Carolina in the 1840s to campaign for a state mental hospital that would provide humane care to the mentally ill. Her efforts resulted in the construction of Dix Hill Asylum (now called Dorothea Dix Hospital) which opened in 1856.
- Format: article
- Dorothea Dix pleads for a state mental hospital
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.8
- In this excerpt from her "memorial" to the North Carolina General Assembly, New England reformer Dorothea Dix lays out her arguments for building a state hospital for the mentally ill. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: report
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- "Fear of Insurrection"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.3
- Excerpt from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, in which the author recalls the hysteria in Edenton, North Carolina, after Nat Turner's Rebellion. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: book
- Geographical, statistical, and historical map of North Carolina (1823)
- The map reflects a situation date of 1821 and the sixty-one counties in existence at that time are both named and delineated and colored in shades of green, pink, and yellow. Relief shown by hachures. Major towns and principal roads are shown, as are the usual...
- Format: image/map
- The growth of slavery in North Carolina
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.6
- Slavery came to North Carolina with the first European settlement, though it grew slowly at first. The institution developed in a unique way in North Carolina, and by the early national period it was fully integrated into the state's society and economy.
- Format: article
- Hysteria in Wilmington
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 9.8
- Excerpt from the diary of Moses Ashley Curtis, a Wilmington tutor. Curtis describes the response of Wilmington residents to the threat of a slave insurrection in September, 1831, after Nat Turner's Rebellion. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: diary
- Interview with Charlie Barbour
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 3.2
- Federal Writers Project interview with former slave Charlie Barbour. Includes historical commentary. Note: This source contains explicit language or content that requires mature discussion.
- Format: interview
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Interview with Cornelia Andrews
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 3.8
- Federal Writers Project interview with former slave Cornelia Andrews. Includes historical commentary. Note: This source contains explicit language or content that requires mature discussion.
- Format: interview
- Interview with W. L. Bost
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 3.7
- Federal Writers Project interview with former slave W. L. Bost. Includes historical commentary. Note: This source contains explicit language or content that requires mature discussion.
- Format: interview
- Interview with Willis Cozart
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 3.5
- Federal Writers' Project interview with former slave Willis Cozart. Includes historical commentary. Note: This source contains explicit language or content that requires mature discussion.
- Format: interview
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- James Curry escapes from slavery
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 3.12
- Excerpt from the memoir of James Curry, former slave in North Carolina, describing his escape to the North and plans to move to Canada. Includes historical commentary. Note: This source contains explicit language or content that requires mature discussion.
- Format: essay
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Map of North Carolina railroads, 1854
- Map depicts North Carolina roads and railroads, including the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, the North Carolina Railroad, the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, and the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. "Coalfields" are...
- Format: image/map
