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Other Recent PublicationsSource: The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 49, No. 1 (January, 1972), pp. 97-101Published by: North Carolina Office of Archives and HistoryStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23529017 .

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ing Corporation [A Negroes Universities Press Publication], 1971. Introduction, tables, notes, bibliography, index. Pp. xviii, 265. $11.00.)

This study of the southern textile industry from 1875 to 1905 suggests that

the cotton mill worker was not as docile as previously believed and that the

Knights of Labor as well as the United Textile Workers of America made a

vigorous effort to unionize the cotton industry before 1905. The attempt failed,

however, as the owners threatened to use black scabs and did use their political economic resources to suppress the workers. The author is successful only in

those chapters (4 through 7) which concern the labor movement in North Caro

lina and South Carolina. Chapters 1 through 3, in which the welfare of the

workers is discussed, contain little which has not been revealed previously. Thus, the book's protest is new and interesting, but its paternalism is disappointing.

Unfortunately, one must qualify the success of Chapters 4 through 7.

The archives of the American Federation of Labor have not been used, al

though they contain letters dealing with organizing labor in the South, and the

author's archival sources relate almost exclusively to South Carolina. Moreover,

Georgia, with the exception of Augusta, and Virginia, with the exception of

Danville, as well as Tennessee and Alabama are only lightly examined. Nor is

the author convincing when he maintains that the mill worker was militant.

No matter how he attempts to explain the militance of these workers, they still

emerge from the pages of this study more docile than their northern counterparts. The summit of union activity in the South involved only 6 percent of the total

mill work force. Further, it is difficult to tell how militant those workers were

since no adequate comparison is made with the textile workers of the North. The

author also fails to deal successfully with the black scab and the black worker in

general. In conclusion, this book would be of value to historians interested in the

history of labor in North Carolina and South Carolina, but it is inadequate as a history of labor in the entire southern textile industry.

Frank L. Grubbs, Jr. Meredith College

Frank L. Grubbs, Jr.

Other Recent Publications

The contents of Brown Marsh Presbyterian Church, Bladen County, North

Carolina, Historical Records, edited by Mrs. Wanda Suggs Campbell, are

partially described in its title. Brown Marsh Presbyterian Church was organized circa 1756, but the earliest extant records are the session minutes of 1796,

excerpts from which are included in this publication. The church archives hold

records of marriages, births, deaths, membership, and cemetery interments, the

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major portion dating from March, 1818, with the pastorate of the Reverend

John D. McFarland, and continuing into the twentieth century. In the interim

the congregation of Brown Marsh met in three buildings erected successively on the same site; in moving to a new building at a different site in 1885, the

name of the church was changed to Clarkton Presbyterian Church. This publi cation is not intended to be a history of the church but is composed of extracts

from the church records, principally of names, for the use of researchers and

genealogists. A 14-page index is provided; however, users are cautioned that

entries on seven pages of the 66-page booklet are not indexed. Brown Marsh

Presbyterian Church is mimeographed on 8ü-by-l 1-inch paper and is paper bound. The price is $5.50 per copy, including postage. Orders should be ad

dressed to Mrs. Carl C. Campbell, Box 547, Elizabethtown, North Carolina, 28337.

Pursuant to its objectives of "the discovery, preservation, and dissemination

of knowledge" about the history of its county, the Washington County Historical

Society has published a 32-page booklet entitled Historic Washington County. The publication includes sketches of the history of the county, of the town of

Plymouth, of eight of its oldest existing houses (including Somerset Place), of four churches, of the Ram Albemarle, and accounts of the battles at Plymouth in 1862 and 1864. Photographs of houses, maps, churches, and historic highway markers appear on almost every page of text; also included are reproductions of

etchings of scenes depicting the Civil War battle at Plymouth in October, 1864, which appeared in Harper's Weekly. No table of contents or index has been

provided, and the pages are unnumbered. The booklet has been produced by photo offset and is attractively paperbound. Proceeds from the sale of this

publication will be used to finance restoration projects in Washington County. Copies at $1.14 each, including postage, may be obtained from Mrs. Edward E. Benson, Jr., President, Washington County Historical Society, 111 Quail Drive, Plymouth, North Carolina, 27962.

The Commonwealth of Onslow: A History, by Joseph Parsons Brown, first

published in 1960 and for some time out of print, has recently been reissued and is currently offered for sale at $10.00 per copy. This 434-page compilation of biographical sketches, church histories, rosters, historical vignettes, and so on, was assembled and published by the author, who was the county's historian from 1938 to 1968, in order to preserve information which he felt should not be lost to posterity and in the hope that it would inspire further study, scholarly research, and the writing of a definitive history of Onslow County. This work was the subject of a full critique in the Winter, 1962, issue of the North Caro lina Historical Review, and some of the errors which the reviewer noted at that time have been rectified in this new edition. Address orders for the book,

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which is clothbound, indexed, and illustrated, to Mr. Joseph C. Brown, 464

College Street, Jacksonville, North Carolina, 28540.

Dr. Harold J. Dudley, former executive secretary of the Synod of the North

Carolina Presbyterian Church in the United States, has edited a third edition

of Trans-Allegheny Pioneers: Historical Sketches of the First White Settlements

West of the Alleghenies, by John P. Hale, which was first published in 1886.

The new edition has been photographically reproduced from the original edition, and it incorporates from the second edition (1931) a biographical sketch of Dr.

Hale and a letter written by former Governor William A. McCorkle of West

Virginia. The most celebrated portion of the book concerns Mary Draper

Ingles's own story of her capture during a Shawnee raid at Draper's Meadow,

Virginia, in 1755, her trek with the Indians to Kentucky, her escape and safe

return home. In addition, there are numerous accounts concerning other

pioneer families who participated in the migration westward from Virginia. The value of this work to historians, researchers, and genealogists, has been

greatly increased by Dr. Dudley's inclusion of a 54-page index, a brief bibliogra

phy of primary and secondary sources, and correction of major errors. New

photographs have been added to those included in the two previous editions of

the book. The Reverend William H. Chappell, who holds a degree in engineer

ing from Duke University, has prepared a map showing the route to and from

Kentucky taken by Mrs. Ingles. Both hardcover and paperbound editions of the

422-page work are available at $15.00 and $7.50 per copy, respectively. Orders

will be filled by Dr. Harold J. Dudley, 2726 Anderson Drive, Raleigh, North

Carolina, 27608.

A commemorative booklet published on July 17, 1971, the sesquicentennial of Andrew Jackson's acceptance of Florida from Spain, is Andrew Jackson and

Pensacóla, edited by James R. McGovern, professor of history at the University of West Florida. The booklet includes a chronology of Andrew Jackson and

Pensacola, 1812-1822, excerpts from primary sources and newspaper accounts

describing the events of the decade, along with secondary accounts prepared

especially for this publication. Several portraits of Jackson are included, as are

maps, a list of mayors of Pensacola, governors of Florida, a selected bibliography, and a program of events during Jackson Week in Pensacola. The 80-page book

let has been attractively produced and is obtainable at $1.00 per copy from the

Andrew Jackson Day Committee, Post Office Drawer A, Pensacola, Florida, 32502.

Ship Island and the Confederacy is a 52-page monograph by Zed H. Burns,

professor of education and psychology at the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Burns traces the history of Ship Island, which is an isolated sand bar

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located thirteen miles off the coast of Biloxi, from the time of its discovery in

1699 by Pierre LeMoyne, Sieur d'Iberville, to its present precarious status fol

lowing assaults by two destructive hurricanes. The study is concerned mainly with the occupation and subsequent abandonment of the island by the Con

federates in 1861, its capture by Major General Benjamin F. Butler, and its

use as a Federal military prison until 1865. Notes, an annotated bibliography, maps, photographs, and an index are included. The paperbound cover is

enhanced by a color photograph of Fort Massachusetts, situated on the northwest end of the island, construction on which began before the Civil War but was never completed. The book can be acquired from the publisher, the University and College Press of Mississippi, Southern Station, Box 5164, Hattiesburg,

Mississippi, 39401, at $2.50 per copy.

For those persons who missed the opportunity to acquire the individual sections of the Civil War Naval Chronology, 186 J-1865, which were published over a six-year period to commemorate the Civil War centennial, the Naval

History Division of the United States Navy Department has now issued the six parts bound together in one volume of more than 1,000 pages. "The Civil War at Sea," by Rear Admiral E. M. Eller, USN (Ret.), and Commodore

Dudley W. Knox, originally published as an appendix to Part V, has been moved forward to provide an introductory essay for the compendium. There is a detailed

chronology for the events of each year of the war, dozens of photographs, repro ductions of letters, documents, maps, and sheet music, and a 66-page index. The volume is attractively casebound. Orders, including $9.75 per copy pre paid, should be addressed to the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govern ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402.

A timely reprint by the Da Capo Press, Inc., is The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North, 1768-1783, edited with an introduction and notes by W. Bodham Donne, and first published in London in 1867. The two-volume edition contains in addition to Donne's 90-page introduction a total of 754 letters addressed to Lord North by the king. The original publication did not include an index and, unfortunately, none has been added to this

reprint. Handsomely clothbound in red with gold lettering, the two-volume set is priced at $32.50. Another Da Capo documentary reprint which is briefer in scope but no less interesting is L. E. Chittenden's A Report of the Debates and

Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention, for Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861. North Carolina's delegates to the conference, commonly referred to as the 1861 Washington Peace Convention, were George Davis, Thomas Ruffin, David S. Reid, Daniel M. Barringer, and John M. Morehead. This 626-page, clothbound volume includes two indexes, the first

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to the proceedings of the conference and the second to the 188 pages of

appendixes. The price is $25.00, and the publisher's address is 227 West 17th

Street, New York, New York, 10011.

In its Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution, the Arno Press has

now reprinted more than 100 titles in three series. The reprint editions have

been produced photographically from the original editions, and all are hand

somely bound in a combination brown and blue cloth. Of particular interest for

research in primary source material on the American Revolution in the South

are James McHenry, A Sidelight on History: Being the Letters of James Mc

Henry, Aide-de-Camp of the Marquis de Lafayette to Thomas Sim Lee, Governor of Maryland; Written During the Yorktown Campaign, 1781, $6.00;

J. G. Simcoe, A History of the Operations of a Partisan Corps, Called the Queens

Rangers, Commanded by Lieut. Co. J. G. Simcoe during the War of the American Revolution, $15.00; Banastre Tarleton, A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Provinces of North America, $15.00; and

William Moultrie, Memoirs of the American Revolution, so Far as It Related to the States of North and South Carolina, and Georgia, $15.00. Books and

descriptive brochures may be ordered from the Arno Press (a publishing and

library service of the New York Times), 330 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10017.

Another title in the series of bibliographies being prepared as a cooperative endeavor of the Agricultural History Branch of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural History Center of the University of California at Davis is A List of References for the History of Agriculture in the Southern United States, 1865-1900, compiled by Helen H. Edwards. There are three

pages of entries under "North Carolina," but the reader must also check care

fully the listings under subject headings such as "Industry," Tobacco," "Tenancy and Crop-lien System," to locate all of the titles in this publication which relate to the history of agriculture in North Carolina. The 89-page mimeographed bibliography, which includes an author index, is available at no charge by writing to the Agricultural History Center, University of California, Davis, California, 95616.

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