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Edenton

Town and administrative headquarters of Chowan County, northeast North Carolina; population (1990) 5,300. It is situated on Albemarle Sound, near the mouth of the Chowan River, and 45 km/28 mi southwest of Elizabeth City. A tourist destination and the business centre of an agricultural and maritime area, it has some industries, including peanut processing.

Settled before 1660, Edenton flourished shipping plantation products, lumber, and fish. The anti-British Edenton Tea Party of October 1774 is believed to be the first political action organized by American women.



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Jean Yellin's biography of its author, then, belongs on the reading list of every teacher who uses the original story of the young female slave who spent seven years hiding in an attic in Edenton, North Carolina in order to protect herself and her children from the wiles of her lascivious master.
Yellin, Jean Fagan. Harriet Jacobs; a life; the remarkable adventures ... by Moore, Patricia / Kliatt
When the good ladies of Edenton, North Carolina, met at Elizabeth King's mansion to sign a pledge against tea in 1774 one of their rewards was a particularly vicious cartoon which showed them as mannish, ugly, lascivious, slovenly housekeepers, and unfit mothers (figure 4).
MANSIONS, MEN, WOMEN, AND THE CREATION OF MULTIPLE PUBLICS IN ... by Kross, Jessica / Journal of Social History
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