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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Philomathean Society Records, #1720-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Joseph Saunders Phipps of Greensboro, N.C.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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.

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• Boys--North Carolina--Societies and clubs--History--19th century.
• Clubs--North Carolina--Guilford County--History--19th century.
• Debates and debating--Societies, etc.--History--19th century.
• Philomathean Society (Alamance, N.C.)

The Philomathean Society, formed July 1847, was a school boys' debate club in the Alamance community, Guilford County, N.C.

The collection is a record book of the Philomathean Society in the Alamance community, Guilford County, N.C. The club debated questions of contemporary public events and classical history. Included are minutes, names of members, and topics discussed. Discussion topics included Henry Clay, treatment of slaves and Native Americans, the annexation of Texas, the regicide of Charles I, and other questions of history and politics.