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245 00 North Carolina women :|btheir lives and times /|cedited by
       Michele Gillespie and Sally G. McMillen.|h[Boundless 
       electronic resource] 
264  1 Athens :|bThe University of Georgia Press,|c2014. 
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490 0  Southern women: their lives and times ;|v1 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    "North Carolina has had more than its share of 
       accomplished, influential women--women who have expanded 
       their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that 
       had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such
       as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner 
       who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, 
       runaway slave, abolitionist, and author of Incidents in 
       the Life of a Slave Girl; and Edith Vanderbilt and 
       Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women's
       equality. This collection of essays examines the lives and
       times of pathbreaking North Carolina women from the late 
       eighteenth century into the early twentieth century, 
       offering important new insights into the variety of North 
       Carolina women's experiences across time, place, race, and
       class, and conveys how women were able to expand their 
       considerable influence during periods of political 
       challenge and economic hardship, particularly over the 
       course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth 
       centuries.  These essays highlight North Carolina's 
       progressive streak and its positive impact on women's 
       education--for white and black alike-- beginning in the 
       antebellum period on through new opportunities that opened
       up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 
       They explore the ways industrialization drew large numbers
       of women into the paid labor force for the first time and 
       what the implications of this tremendous transition were; 
       they also examine the women who challenged traditional 
       gender roles, as political leaders and labor organizers, 
       as runaways, and as widows. The volume is especially 
       attuned to differences in region within North Carolina, 
       delineating women's experiences in the eastern third of 
       the state, the piedmont, and the western mountains"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
520    "This first of two volumes on North Carolina women 
       chronicles the influence and accomplishments of individual
       women from the pre-Revolutionary period through the early 
       20th century. They represent a range of social and 
       economic backgrounds, political stances, areas of 
       influence, and geographical regions within the state. Even
       though North Carolina remained mostly rural until well 
       into the twentieth century and the lives of most women 
       centered on farm, family, and church, Gillespie and 
       McMillen note that the state's people "exhibited a 
       progressive streak that positively influenced women." 
       Public funds were set aside to advance statewide education,
       private efforts after the Civil War led to the founding of
       numerous black schools and colleges, and in 1891 the 
       General Assembly chartered the State Normal and Industrial
       School (later UNC-G) as one of the first publicly funded 
       colleges for white women. By the late 19th century, as 
       several essays in this volume reveal, education played a 
       pivotal role in the lives of many white and black women. 
       It inspired their activism and involvement in a world 
       beyond their traditional domestic sphere"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
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650  0 Women|zNorth Carolina|vBiography. 
650  0 Women|zNorth Carolina|xHistory. 
700 1  Gillespie, Michele. 
700 1  McMillen, Sally G.|q(Sally Gregory),|d1944- 
776 08 |iElectronic reproduction of (manifestation):|tNorth 
       Carolina women|dAthens : The University of Georgia Press, 
       2014|z9780820339993|w(DLC)  2013033795 
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