Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775

Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast-growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of their new world. The authors illustrate this process by analyzing slave languages, naming practices, family structures, religion, and patterns of resistance. Kay and Cary clearly demonstrate that slaveowners erected a Draconian code of criminal justice for slaves. This system played a central role in the masters' attempt to achieve legal, political, and physical hegemony over their slaves, but it impeded a coherent attempt at acculturation. In fact, say Kay and Cary, slaveowners often withheld white culture from slaves rather than work to convert them to it. As a result, slaves retained significant elements of their African heritage and therefore enjoyed a degree of cultural autonomy that freed them from reliance on a worldview and value system determined by whites.

History

Kay, Marvin L. Michael

Cary, Lorin Lee

Americas

Univ of North Carolina Pr

Professor Walter Reeves of Marlington University in Ohio receives an amazing diary that changes everything known about General George Armstrong Custer. Reeves sees in it his promotion and fame. Soon, however, he is harassed by a tyrannical boss and pursued by Native American activists and a comic pro-Custer militia group. This inventive, humorous romp culminates near the Little Big Horn on the anniversary of Custer's last stand.

The Custer Conspiracy

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

AuthorHouse

Professor Walter Reeves of Marlington University in Ohio receives an amazing diary that  changes everything known about General George Armstrong Custer.  Reeves sees in it his promotion and fame.  Soon, however, he is harassed by a tyrannical boss and pursued by Native American activists and a comic pro-Custer militia group.  This inventive, humorous romp culminates near the Little Big Horn on the anniversary of Custer's last stand.

My Good Fortune: Memoir of a Chinese Orphan's Success in America

Orphaned as a child, Lu Chi Fa survived brutality and starvation in China during and after World War II. Once sold for two sacks of rice, in 1951 he fled to Hong Kong and Taiwan for a better life and immigrated to the United States in 1969. He and Becky White told that story in Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan; in 2001 it won the Parents’ Choice Foundation Gold Award. This book adds details about Lu Chi Fa’s early life in China and Taiwan, and follows his quest to create good fortune in the U.S. Despite problems and the lingering effects of childhood abuse, he succeeded. His willingness to work hard and to set aside the negative past served him well. An optimistic entrepreneur at heart, by the 1980s Lu Chi Fa owned three businesses in Southern California. Since 1990 he has owned The Coffee Pot restaurant in Morro Bay. In 2019 the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce named him a “Living Treasure.” The central message of this memoir is that success is possible despite poverty, hardship and poor education. Setbacks will occur in our lives, but if we set aside negative excuses and work hard we can fulfill our dreams.

Biographies & Memoirs

Fa, Lu Chi

Community & Culture

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Quick and Quirky Stories and Photos

Arts & Photography

Lorin Lee Cary

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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