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Catherine W. Bishir, “Black Builders in Antebellum North Carolina.” 

Elizabeth Hines and Michael S. Smith, “Gold is Where You Find It: Placer Mining in North Carolina, 1799–1849.”

Lester J. Cappon, “Iron-making—A Forgotten Industry of North Carolina.” 

Alan D. Watson, “North Carolina and Internal Improvements, 1783-1861: The Case of Inland Navigation.” 

Jeff Forret, “Slave Labor in North Carolina’s Antebellum Gold Mines.” 

Edward W. Phifer, “Slavery in Microcosm: Burke County, North Carolina.”

John Hope Franklin “Slaves Virtually Free in Ante-Bellum North Carolina.”

Jane Turner Censer, “Southwestern Migration among North Carolina Planter Families: ‘The Disposition to Emigrate.’” 

Curtis W. Wood and Tyler H. Blethen, “The Antebellum Iron Industry in Western North Carolina.”

Julian P. Boyd, “The Sheriff in Colonial North Carolina.” 

Robert, Joseph Clarke, “The Tobacco Industry in Ante-bellum North Carolina.” 

Norrece T. Jones, Born a Child of Freedom, yet a Slave: Mechanisms of Control and Strategies of Resistance in Antebellum South Carolina.

John W. Blassingame,  The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. 

Michael Tadman,Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders and Slaves in the Old South. 

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