Appleton Oaksmith papers, 1825-1888.

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Appleton Oaksmith papers, 1825-1888.

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The collection contains scattered papers, consisting chiefly of postwar legal papers and letters concerning the Carolina City Land Company of Carteret County and Oaksmith's detailed diary of an unsuccessful shipping venture in 1855 in which his ship was seized near Mobile, Ala., apparently while carrying arms to Cuba. Other papers include a dozen letters, 1874-1877, written by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith from North Carolina to William J. Spence, Long Island, N.Y., concerning race relations and the temperance movement. Also included is a broadside, 1825, advertising for the return of runaway slaves in Maryland.

About 110 items.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7124477

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Carolina City Land Company (Carteret County, N.C.)

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Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith was a notably intelligent, talented, and accomplished 19th century American author. She first published poems in her husband's newspapers, began to write in earnest to alleviate financial concerns, and produced a remarkably capable and diverse body of work including poetry, essays, children's stories, novels, and non-fiction. She became one of the first women lecturers, speaking on women's rights and abolition. She was well-connected and well-respected by her peers, and mai...

Oaksmith, Appleton, 1827-1887

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Adventurer, author, shipowner, and industrial promoter, of Hollywood, N.C. From the description of Papers, 1840-1885. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019397 Appleton Oaksmith, North Carolina state legislator from Carteret County, N.C., was the son of Seba Smith (1792-1868), Maine and New York political humorist, and Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith (1806-1893), author, lecturer, and reformer, who used the name Ernest Helfenstein. From the description...