...J. W. Manning Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 COUNTY CONSOLIDATION AS A MEANS OF TAX REDUCTION J. W. MANNING IT HAS often been said that the people of the United States are overgoverned and overtaxed. Many proponents of tax reduction have idealized their objective without...

...Charles Craven Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 THE ROBESON COUNTY INDIAN UPRISING AGAINST THE KKK Charles Craven ONE OF the most striking aspects of the Ku Klux Klansmen who in January 18, 1958, came to Robeson County, North Carolina, to hold a rally was their lack of numbers...

...W. A. Mabry History of Prince Edward County, Virginia: From Its Earliest Settlements through Its Establishment in 1754 to Its Bicentennial Year . By Bradshaw Herbert Clarence . Richmond : The Dietz Press , 1955 . Pp. xxii , 934 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University...

...John R. Alden The Committees of Safety of Westmoreland and Fincastle: Proceedings of the County Committees 1774-1776 . Edited by Harwell Richard Barksdale . Richmond : Virginia State Library Publications, No. 1 , 1956 . Pp. 127 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957...

... but somewhat competitive twoparty system is a valued addition to the research on southern politics. He continues the fine intellectual tradition of V.O. Key. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY DAVID C. COLBY Liberation and Its Limits: The Moral and Political Thought of Freud. By Jeffrey B. Abramson. New...

... radically changing. It is to Barnes s considerable credit that she guides us through the judgmental temptations of this simpler era of such ostensibly mani­ fest good and evil with a sure and judicious hand. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY HUGH DAVIS GRAHAM A Southern Rebel, The Life and Times...

... sources for these arguments, especially his fieldwork in Lowndes County, Alabama, and the novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece , that was clearly influenced by that experience. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Aptheker Herbert . 1980 . “ Introduction .” In Contributions...

...Laura Harris If ’68 marks the emergence of seemingly new kinds of radical practices pursued by new revolutionary subjects, this essay asks how we might understand a strike undertaken by Appalachian coal miners in the early 1970s and its documentation in the film Harlan County, USA . Is this strike...

... of production for profit. Plant­ ers are caught between a low cotton price and the necessity of planting more cotton in order to pay high taxes to the state and county. Messrs. Beatty and O Donnell lay the blame for the high taxes levied by some of the Mississippi Delta counties to their affliction...

... of representation, by which membership in the General Assembly was apportioned equally among the counties, irrespective of population. This proved to be a bulwark of sectional interests within the state, which in time became so intense that united effort for progress and general welfare was well-nigh impossible...

... well, collapsed as a result of the Civil War. , A new constitution was established in 1868 which pro­ vided that a public school of at least four months should be maintained in every county in the state. This was about the length of the public school term at the outbreak of the war. To this end...

... he had entered upon the duties of his new work. The plan adopted for beginning the campaign embraced: (1) The determination of the geographical distribution of the disease and the approximate degree of its prevalence by counties; (2) the employment of all available agencies to get the present...

... during the Civil War may be classified under three general heads: those granted by the State, those provided by the counties as a supplement to the State appropriation, and the gifts of individuals and voluntary organizations for this pur­ pose. The above classification perhaps gives the sources...

...William F. Holmes Labor Agents and the Georgia Exodus, 1899-1900 William F. Holmes Shortly after two o clock on a Sunday morning in early December 1899, a Georgia Railroad train, operating between Augusta and At­ lanta, entered Morgan county pulling six extra coaches, all unoccu­ pied. Just over...

..., in some form or other, to assist the counties in the construction of the state s public roads, although the largest 58 The South Atlantic Quarterly. share of the expense may be borne by the counties and townships. The benefits to be derived from the construction of such roads in the various counties...

... of Ken­ tucky in 1911 hit on the scheme of Moonlight Schools, her experiment was eagerly watched and imitated in other states. North Carolina was one of the earliest and most enthusi­ astic of them. Her county superintendents during their annual session in 1914 agreed to organize Moonlight Schools...

.... IT. Vick, Wilson; and C. M. Epps, Greenville, all business men of ability and prominence. The War Savings records for North Carolina show that the colored people pledged to buy War Savings Stamps far more in keeping with their ability than the white people. A com­ parative study of the counties...

... Hinton, of the parish of St. Margaret, county of Wake, province of North Carolina, was a Revolutionary soldier and statesman, whose military career began in the internal troubles of North Carolina, 1768-1771. Many years of his life were devoted to the service of his country and State. Frequently his name...

... Hinton, of the parish of St. Margaret, county of Wake, province of North Carolina, was a Revolutionary soldier and statesman, whose military career began in the internal troubles of North Carolina, 1768-1771. Many years of his life were devoted to the service of his country and State. Frequently his name...

... by the government. A state board of control, com­ posed of five members elected by the legislature, had general super­ vision, appointed the central and county dispensary commissioners, clerks, and subordinate officials, and fixed their salaries. Thus a state­ wide system was inaugurated. The voters who had...