North Carolina Literary Trails

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Stagville Plantation, Lee Smith and Connie Rose Porter

Stagville and Oxford

This tour begins on the site of an antebellum plantation, a source of inspired material from writers who give voice to the enslaved and the slaveholder.

Writers with a connection to this area: Hilda Gurley-Highgate, David Payne, William T. Polk, Connie Porter, Reynolds Price, Sam Ragan, Annella Rockson, Andrea Selch, Frank G. Slaughter, Thad Stem, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Peter Taylor and Timothy Tyson.

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North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
The North Carolina Arts Council is a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. Linda A. Carlisle, Secretary; Beverly Eaves Perdue, Governor