North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times

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Contents Introduction Michele Gillespie and Sally G. McMillen 1 The Edenton Ladies Women, Tea, and Politics in Revolutionary North Carolina Cynthia A. Kierner 12 Sister Anna An African Woman in Early North Carolina Jon Sensbach 34 Elizabeth Maxwell Steele “A Great Politician” and the Revolution in the Southern Backcountry Cory Joe Stewart 54 Rose O’Neal Greenhow “Bearer of Dispatches to the Confederate Government” Sheila R. Phipps 73 Catherine Devereux Edmondston “My lines are cast in such pleasant places” Suzanne Cooper Guasco 94 Harriet and Louisa Jacobs “Not without My Daughter” Jim Downs 117 Cornelia Phillips Spencer The Foremost Daughter of North Carolina and the Contradictions of a Nineteenth-Century Public Life William A. Link 133 vi Contents Alice Morgan Person “My life has been out of the ordinary run of woman’s life” Angela Robbins 152 Mary Bayard Clarke Design for “Upsetting the Established Order of Our Dear Old Conservative State” Terrell Armistead Crow 174 Anna Julia Cooper Black Feminist Scholar, Educator, and Activist Vivian M. May 192 Sallie Southall Cotten Organized Womanhood Comes to North Carolina Margaret Supplee Smith 213 Annie Lowrie Alexander “A Woman Doing a Great Work in a Womanly Way” James Douglas Alsop 241 Sarah Cowan “Daisy” Denson The Lost Matriarch of State Public Welfare Reform Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman 263 Sarah Dudley Pettey “A New Age Woman” and the Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in North Carolina Elizabeth Lundeen 291 Mary Martin Sloop Mountain Miracle Worker John C. Inscoe 313 Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds The Public Lives of Progressive North Carolina’s Wealthiest Women Michele Gillespie 337 Contents vii Arizona Nick Swaney Blankenship Becoming Cherokee Sarah H. Hill 359 Samantha Biddix Bumgarner Country Music Pioneer Robert Hunt Ferguson 383 Contributors 397 Index 401 North Carolina Women This page intentionally left blank ...