African American Documentary Resources
Enhancing African American Documentary Resources in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill
Creator: Penn School papers, 1862-2004.
Collection number: 3615
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Abstract: The Penn School on Saint Helena Island, S.C., was founded during the Civil War by northern philanthropists and missionaries for former plantation slaves in an area occupied by the United States Army. Over the years, with Continue reading “Penn School papers, 1862-2004.”
Creator: Prescott, Helen M. Blount.
Collection number: 1509
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Abstract: Chiefly correspondence and notes of an Atlanta, Ga., genealogist, 1910-1940. The Adams, Blount, Hill, Howard, Hughes, Randolph, and Reynolds families are among those Continue reading “Helen M. Blount Prescott papers, 1835-1944 (bulk 1910-1940).”
Creator: Pettigrew family.
Collection number: 592
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Abstract: Represented are four generations of the Pettigrew family of Washington and Tyrrell counties, N.C. Prominent family members included James Pettigrew (d. 1784), who emigrated Continue reading “Pettigrew family papers, 1685-circa 1939.”
Creator: Pendleton, William Nelson, 1809-1883.
Collection number: 1466
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Abstract: Pendleton was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, an Episcopal clergyman and schoolmaster in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, a Confederate Continue reading “William Nelson Pendleton papers, 1798-1889.”
Creator: Phillips and Myers family papers, 1804-1928 (bulk 1862-1900).
Collection number: 596
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Abstract: Individuals represented include Philip Phillips (1807-1884), South Carolina and Alabama State legislator and U. S. Representative from Alabama; his wife, Eugenia (Levy) Phillips (1819-1901); their sons, William Hallett Continue reading “Phillips and Myers family papers, 1804-1928 (bulk 1862-1900).”
Creator: Price family.
Collection number: 2850
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Abstract: Price family of Mecklenburg County, N.C., and Fayette and Giles counties, Tenn., where several members of the family moved to settle and where many of them owned land. Continue reading “Price family papers, 1772-1875.”
Creator: Paine, Robert Treat, 1812-1872.
Collection number: 1110
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Abstract: Edenton, N.C., lawyer, state legislator, army officer during the Mexican War, member of the United States and Mexican Claims Commission, and U.S. Representative, Continue reading “Robert Treat Paine papers, 1830-1900 (bulk 1830-1858).”
Creator: Philips, James Jones, 1798-1874.
Collection number: 972
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Abstract: James Jones Philips was a physican and scientific farmer of Edgecombe County, N.C., and his cousin Ethelred Philips (1801-1870) was a physician and farmer of Mariana, Fla. The Continue reading “James Jones Philips papers, 1814, 1832-1892.”
Creator: Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.
Collection number: 4294
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Abstract: Walker Percy was raised in Georgia, Alabama, and Greenville, Miss., and lived most of his adult life in Covington, La. He was the author of six published novels: “The Continue reading “Walker Percy papers, 1910-1992.”
Creator: Polk, Badger, and McGehee family papers, 1790-1898 (bulk 1822-1898).
Collection number: 3979
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Abstract: George Edmund Badger of New Bern, N.C., was a lawyer; politician; North Carolina legislator; superior court judge; Secretary of the Navy; United States senator; member of the North Carolina Convention of 1861-1862; and Continue reading “Polk, Badger, and McGehee family papers, 1790-1898 (bulk 1822-1898).”