Posted in Just A Bite, tagged alexander h jones, american heritage, carolina quaker belt, eric foner, gov william h holden, hendersonville nc, heroes of america, underground railroad, zebulon vance on March 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Outside of East Tennessee the most extensive antiwar organizing took place in western and central North Carolina, whose residents had largely supported the Confederacy in 1861. Here the secret Heroes of America, numbering perhaps 10,000 men, established an ‘underground railroad’ to enable Unionists to escape to Federal lines. “The Heroes originated in North Carolina’s Quaker [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged black education, eric foner, gov jonathan worth, reconstruction on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Gov. Jonathan Worth, elected in 1865, had earlier in his career steered to passage the bill establishing public education in North Carolina, but he now persuaded the legislature to abolish the state school system altogether…. The governor feared that if white children were educated at public expense, ‘we will be required to educate the negroes [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged eric foner, front street methodist church, gen. john m. schofield, reconstruction, rev. l. s. burkhead, wilmington nc on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The ownership of church property provoked bitter controversy [during Reconstruction]. A case in point: the Front Street Methodist Church in Wilmington, North Carolina, whose congregation before the war numbered about 1,400, two-thirds of them black. “When Union soldiers occupied the city early in 1865, the black members informed Rev. L. S. Burkhead ‘that they did [...]
