Society in Colonial North Carolina

Edited by Alan D. Watson

Society in Colonial North Carolina

Approx. 156 pp., 6 x 9, 26 halftones

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8652-6267-6
    Published: January 1996

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Distributed for the North Carolina Office of Archives and History

A revised edition of the popular paperback first published in 1975, Society in Colonial North Carolina describes day-to-day life in the state before the American Revolution. The volume discusses such topics as homes, furnishings, education, health, recreation, religion, transportation, town life, marriage, and death and includes a new chapter titled "Servitude and Slavery."

About the Author

Alan D. Watson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. One of North Carolina's most prolific historians, he has authored more than fifteen books and numerous articles on various topics in the Tar Heel State's colonial and revolutionary history.
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