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Tag Archives: commodities
12 December 1863: “Negro property is looked on as almost valueless in the situation. Negro men are being sold in market for 100 gallons of brandy.”
Item description: Entry, dated 12 December 1863, from the diary of David Schenck. More about David Schenck: David Schenck (1835-1902), son of a doctor and apothecary of Lincolnton, N.C., attended Judge Fearson’s Law School in Rockford, N.C., and received his … Continue reading
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Tagged commodities, crimes, David Schenck, deserters, prices, sale of slaves, social conditions
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11 December 1861: AN ORDINANCE FOR SUPPRESSING OPPRESSIVE SPECULATION UPON THE PRESENT NECESSITIES OF THE PEOPLE
Item description: An ordinance by North Carolina’s Secession Convention prohibiting speculation on “corn or other grain growing in the fields, or any other corn or grain, pork, or beef, either fish, salted or smoked, cheese, fish, coffee, sugar, tea, salt, … Continue reading
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Tagged commodities, economic conditions, food, food shortage, goods, laws, North Carolina, ordinances, prices, Secession Convention, speculation, supplies
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8 December 1861: “Evey Man Woman & Child would sign a petition to that effect. Except the distillers.”
Item description: Letter from George A. McManners to William A. Graham. McManners urged Governor Graham to take up the question of whiskey taxation at the convention to prevent corn speculation and to protect his political standing with the people of … Continue reading
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Tagged commodities, corn, food shortage, North Carolina, North Carolina Convention, prices, speculation, Stay Law, taxes, whiskey
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