A precarious balance : firearms, race, and community in North Carolina, 1715-1865 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hunter, Antwain K. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Enslaved persons > North Carolina > Social conditions > History > 18th century. Enslaved persons > North Carolina > Social conditions > History > 19th century. Free Black people > North Carolina > Social conditions > History > 18th century. Free Black people > North Carolina > Social conditions > History > 19th century. Firearms > Economic aspects. Firearms > Law and legislation > North Carolina. Gun control > North Carolina > History > 18th century. Gun control > North Carolina > History > 19th century. North Carolina > Race relations. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

A reconsideration of Black North Carolinians' firearm use in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
North Carolina's race-based firearm laws in theory and practice
Unfree Black people, firearms, and the violation of law
Firearms and labor in North Carolina
Firearms and the free Black community
Black men's armed labor in Confederate North Carolina
Firearms, race, and the steady march of time.