Eminent Charlotteans : twelve historical profiles from North Carolina's Queen City /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Syfert, Scott, author.
Imprint:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Description:	vii, 211 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Charlotte (N.C.) -- Biography. Charlotte (N.C.) -- History. North Carolina -- Charlotte. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11594066

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ISBN:	9781476666495 1476666490
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This history details the lives of 12 Charlotteans who made important contributions to the Queen City, from the early Colonial period to the 20th century. Subjects include Catawba Indian chief King Haigler, Founding Father Thomas Polk, freed slave turned celebrity barber Thaddeus Lincoln Tate and North Carolina's first woman physician, Dr. Annie Lowrie Alexander"--

Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. King Haigler and the Catawba Indians
2. Crackers: Thomas "Kanawha" Spratt and the Scots-Irish
3. No Surrender: The Rev. Alexander Craighead and the Presbyterians
4. The Founding Father: Thomas Polk
5. Charlotte's Paul Revere: Captain James Jack and the Mecklenburg Declaration of independence
6. Freedom for Slaves: Ishmael Titus and the African Americans in the American Revolution
7. The Roman: Joseph Graham
8. The Forgotten Charlotteans: African American Slaves
9. The Silent Barber: Thaddeus Lincoln Tate
10. The Cavalryman: Lt. William Ewen Shipp
11. Dr. Annie: North Carolina's First Woman Physician
12. H. Douglas Crotts and the Greatest Generation
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

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