| Scope and content |
The collection includes four term papers and one master's thesis, all from Old Dominion University. The papers deal with race relations, particularly emphasizing conditions in North Carolina. Topics covered include slavery, freedmen, the Fusion and Populist movements, and both black and white farmers' alliances. Three of the papers deal with political and social aspects of race relations in the South during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. These works discuss attempts to form a cooperative relationship between blacks and whites around such issues as the Populist Party, the Farmers' Alliance, and the sub-treasury plan. The papers also examine the impact of these activities on the traditional southern social system, resulting in the disfranchisement of blacks, Jim Crow legislation, destruction of the Populist Party, and the 1898 Wilmington race riot. Sugg explains in detail how those negative results led to the exodus of thousands of blacks from North Carolina to other southern states and to the industrial North. The fourth term paper covers such topics as the development of slavery in North Carolina and relationships between slaves and slave owners. Also of interest are statistics on ratios of blacks to whites, freemen to slaves, and property-holding blacks to tenants in North Carolina. |
| Access restriction | No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Harold G. Sugg Papers (#494), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Harold G. Sugg. |
| Biographical note | Harold G. Sugg, a Greenville, N.C., native, received an M.A. in history from Old Dominion University in 1971. He served as an editor and publisher for several Virginia newspapers. |
