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This is the history of Washington Duke and two of his sons, Benjamin Newton Duke and James Buchanan Duke. Although numerous other members of the family play their parts in the story it focuses primarily on the three men who were at the center of the economic and philanthropic activities which made the Dukes of Durham one of America's famous families. The Dukes operated closely and constantly as a family, and only in that context is their full story told.

In the years after the Civil War, Washington Duke proved to be an unusually able industrialist and a conscientious, Methodist...

The Confederacy in its waning days turned to the idea of arming slaves, as leaders such as Jefferson Davis attempted to force the South to sacrifice one of its war aims - the preservation of slavery - in order to achieve an independent southern nation. This book reconstructs this passionate debate.