This exploration of the Black laborers at Fort Macon during the Civil War is Antwain K. Hunter’s current research project. North Carolina relied on these Black men—the bulk of whom were free people—to get the Fort ready for the war. The presentation will cover who these men were, the physically demanding labor they performed, the reasons they undertook this labor in a Confederate state, and why their efforts should matter to us in the present day.
Antwain K. Hunter is an assistant professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill and earned his PhD at Penn State, studying in the Richards Civil War Era Center. His book, A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865 is on the legal and social dynamics of Black North Carolinians’ firearm use and will be published with UNC Press next year. Hunter is currently researching free black people’s labor in Confederate North Carolina and a separate book project that examines Black people’s alcohol use in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina.
Date: February 28, 2025
Location: Joslyn Hall at Carteret Community College
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Cost: FREE
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