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Miss Mary's Money : Fortune and Misfortune in a North Carolina Plantation Family, 1760-1924 by H.G. Jones with David Southern is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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"Miss Smith, the wealthy old lady who died recently near Chapel Hill, and who bequeathed a large sum of money to the State University, did not fail to remember her old slaves, of whom six are now living," read the New York Times, December 6, 1885. But the Times got it wrong: land, not money, was left to the University of North Carolina and five of Mary Ruffin Smith's former slaves. Four were also her nieces--sired by her two bachelor brothers--and all had the same mother, the Smiths' maid Harrie

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Author

H.G. Jones with David Southern

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476619873

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Updated

2026-03-25