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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James Pleasant Mason Diary, #495, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Baptist State Convention of North Carolina--Clergy--History--19th century.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Farm life--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Farmers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Mason, James Pleasant, 1827-1893.
• Orange County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.

James Pleasant Mason (1827-1893) was a Baptist minister and farmer of Orange County, N.C.

The collection is his diary, dealing mainly with activities on Mason's farm, which was later bequeathed to the University of North Carolina. The diary contains a very detailed account of Mason's daily life, including his routines of eating and sleeping, his preaching, and the daily tasks of farming.