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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William F. Atkinson Papers, #3191-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from W. Powell Bland of Goldsboro, N.C., October 1955.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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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• Agricultural laborers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Atkinson, William F., fl. 1868-1869.
• North Carolina Immigration Association.
• North Carolina--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
• Swiss Americans--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Switzerland--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

William F. Atkinson of Goldsboro, N.C., traveled to Switzerland, 1868-1869, to recruit immigrant laborers to work as planters in North Carolina.

The collection includes a report (26 pages) by William F. Atkinson to the North Carolina Immigration Association on a trip to Switzerland to recruit immigrant labor for planters and records of his travel expenses. Atkinson's report indicates that he returned to Goldsboro with sixty-two persons. There is also an undated, detailed statement of evidence of loyalty to the United States during the Civil War by a North Carolinian and an enumeration of losses and damages incurred from a visit of Sherman's cavalry to his property.