Papers, 1844-1872.

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Papers, 1844-1872.

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Papers of Swaim who published, with M.S. Sherwood, the Greensboro Patriot (1839-1854), including letters from his father, Moses Swaim, in Newport, Ind., and from his brother, Curran Swaim and Ben Swaim, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Topics include teachers' salaries; commodity prices; Methodists, Quakers, and United Brethren, abolitionists and runaway slaves in Indiana; the rapid growth of Cincinnati; settlement and growth of Ohio and Indiana; spiritualism; and art. Includes letters discussing North Carolina state and national politics, including political parties, the Mexican War; and a trip by Lyndon Swaim to New Bern, N.C., and the site of Gov. Tyron's palace. Includes also a journal of a trip north in 1852 by Curran and Henry Swaim through Virginia to New York, describing taverns, roads, Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Virginia Military Institute, camp meetings and religious meetings of Afro-Americans, and Washington, D.C. and various members of the Federal government whom they saw.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6998561

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Newspaper publisher; of Greensboro (Guilford Co.), N.C. From the description of Papers, 1844-1872. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20400218 ...