Antebellum North Carolina
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Abstract: In this lesson students will examine pictures and documents relating to the Hayes Plantation (Edenton, NC). Students will also use various maps of North Carolina to help them analyze how James Cathcart Johnston (owner of Hayes Plantation) used, modified and adapted to the physical environment of Edenton. Students will decipher original manuscripts from the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Campus and draw conclusions about antebellum society in North Carolina with regard to reform movements and the Social Sciences and status of blacks. From a list of volumes found in the Hayes Plantation Library exhibit at the North Carolina Collection Gallery, students will determine what categories of books were most prevalent in the library and hypothesize as to why those types of books would be so important to an antebellum plantation owner.
