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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in John Mebane Allen's Grandfather's Letters #4118-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Transferred from the Southern Oral History Program in November 1976.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Agriculture--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Alamance County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Allen, John Mebane, 1823-1894.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Furman, Elizabeth White.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Mines and mineral resources--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Economic conditions.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
• Railroads--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• Tanning--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Letters to John Mebane Allen of Arkansas from friends and relatives in Alamance County, N.C., and extracts from a journal kept by Allen during his move from North Carolina to Arkansas in 1852, and compiled and indexed by Elizabeth White Furman, circa 1974. Letters, 1853-1859, from North Carolina discuss personal, local and agricultural news and occasionally comment on politics, the economy, railroad building, operating a tannery, mining, and the hiring and sale of slaves. A version with virtually identical contents was privately published in 1974.